Watch more about the victims of the war » Throughout the fighting over the past three weeks, the gray-bearded Khan has been ...
The Taliban announced an amnesty for former government officials ... Members of the Afghan security forces wait to be extracted by helicopter after a 2008 operation in Afghanistan (Getty) Recent ...
A Pakistani army helicopter crashed Wednesday in the country's tribal region, killing a senior general and seven members of his staff -- including two other generals -- an army spokesman told CNN. The ...
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Taliban 2.0: The phoenix of Pashtun power

The Pashtun Taliban has risen like a phoenix: transformed from Mujahideen who pushed back the Soviets in 1979 to take power ...
In his first interview, the US pilot of doomed Black Hawk 448 reveals that he was forced to make last-minute changes to the flight that cost the lives of three Australian commandos.
The Pakistani government and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban on Wednesday agreed to a temporary 48-hour ceasefire after fresh clashes erupted this week and saw more than a dozen civilians and troops ...
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced that a ceasefire with neighboring Pakistan would go into effect Wednesday, after a second eruption of cross-border violence in less than a week that has left ...
In June 2010, the Australian Army’s 2nd Commando Regiment in Afghanistan came up with a simple but daring plan: fly into a Taliban sanctuary at night, flush out anyone prepared to fight, and kill them ...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday it agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire with Afghanistan following days of violence that have killed dozens of people on both sides of the border. Pakistan's Foreign ...
This special report focuses on the Taliban-led Afghanistan's decision to construct a dam on the Kunar River, a move that ...