Feb 24 (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants announced on Tuesday an indefinite ceasefire in the Swat valley in the northwest of the country, a day after the army said it was ceasing operations in ...

The Taliban issued a statement Saturday in which the 9/11 anniversary was mentioned. For nine years "Afghanistan has been burning in the flames of the invasion of the American invaders that started ...

KABUL -- The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan ...

Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai spent years lying low in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban leadership has been based since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 toppled the extremist group ...

From everyday Afghans to the Taliban insurgency to the highest elected officials, accusations that the U.S. covered-up the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians have gone mainstream in Afghanistan. Sometime ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan/KABUL (Reuters) - If the first public comments from the Afghan Taliban's newly appointed leader are anything to go by, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour recognises how fractured the militant ...

Sources within the Taliban leadership confirmed to CNN-News18 that this was not a spontaneous tribute. They said it was a calculated move linked to the Taliban’s long-standing position on the Durand ...

The entire world has become a battlefield and not in theory.’ Radicals have taken their fight beyond geography and now it is ...

The challenges Pakistan faces today are often described in binary terms — a threat here, a conflict there — but the reality ...

Farmers from the district of Marja, which since February has been the focus of the largest American-led military operation in Afghanistan, are fleeing the area, saying that the Taliban are terrorizing ...

Taliban propaganda has depicted a flurry of activity at former U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Aerial images show aircraft decoys ...