AFP – Pakistani and US officials are increasingly convinced that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was behind the suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan in December, had died from wounds sustained in a drone strike, Th…
There is concern that our continued efforts in Afghanistan are being undermined by widespread corruption within the administration of President Hamid Karzai. What few people are talking about is the o…
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Islamabad would use its influence to bring the Afghan Taliban leadership to the negotiation table, and also play its role in helping allied forces led by the US to pull out of Afghanistan.
A Canadian general in southern Afghanistan has vowed to "break the back" of Taliban insurgents as the hard-line Islamist movement rejected participation in proposed peace talks with the Afghan government.
A Canadian general in southern Afghanistan has vowed to "break the back" of Taliban insurgents as the hard-line Islamist movement rejected participation in proposed peace talks with the Afghan government.
A Canadian general in southern Afghanistan has vowed to "break the back" of Taliban insurgents as the hard-line Islamist movement rejected participation in proposed peace talks with the Afghan government.
Four Afghan army soldiers were killed in a clash with US Special Forces in central Afghanistan, while two US soldiers and one civilian were killed in eastern region, officials said Saturday.
Kabul, Jan 30 (DPA) Four Afghan army soldiers were killed in a clash with US Special Forces in central Afghanistan, while two US soldiers and one civilian were killed in eastern region, officials said Saturday.
AP – The Taliban are denying reports that their representatives met with a U.N. official to discuss prospects for peace in Afghanistan.
A bomb in northwest Pakistan destroyed a truck carrying oil to NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan on Friday, while gunmen elsewhere in the country killed three Shiite Muslims on their way to visit holy sites in Iraq.