Explosions and gunfire rang out as the Taliban attacked Kabul airport Thursday in the militants' latest attempt to steal the initiative with the country in the grip of a presidential power struggle.
Pakistan's military launched a ground assault in North Waziristan tribal area on Monday, beginning a new phase in its offensive against Taliban militants, officials said.
The United States praised millions of Afghan voters who defied Taliban threats and attacks to vote in a presidential run-off election securing the country's first democratic transfer of power, with counting set to begin Sunday.
Afghan troops stepped up security, erecting more checkpoints, searching cars and banning trucks from the streets of the capital Kabul ahead of the presidential elections on Saturday.
US Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at an American military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape, a senior US official said on Sunday.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said Thursday that Taliban did not want to enforce Shariah in the country at gunpoint but wanted to liberate it from the US war, DawnNews reported.
Pakistani fighter jets bombarded Taliban hideouts in the troubled northwest Tuesday, killing at least 30 in the fourth airstrikes since peace talks stalled, in what analysts say is a surgical operation to reassert the military's dominance.
Scores of alleged Taliban fighters walked free from jail in Afghanistan on Thursday, triggering condemnation from the United States which said they were responsible for killing NATO and Afghan soldiers as well as civilians.
Security forces captured a Taliban commander in Taliban former stronghold the southern Kandahar province on Sunday, a statement of National Directorate for Security (NDS), or the country's national spy agency, said.
The Pakistani Taliban have appointed an interim leader to head the group temporarily after the death of commander Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone strike, a spokesman told AFP Sunday.
The death of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud in an American drone strike Friday evening almost derailed the government's plan to hold peace talks with Taliban militants.
Militants from the Pakistani Taliban met Saturday to choose a new leader after their chief was killed in a U.S. drone strike the day before, intelligence officials and militant commanders said.
Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani Saturday said the army supports the government's policy of dialogue with the Taliban to end the insurgency wracking the country.
Tehran, YJC. -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai will visit Pakistan Monday seeking the release of key Taliban prisoners as he tries to restart peace talks with the militants after they collapsed acrimoniously.