Pakistani authorities are reported to have arrested nearly half of the Afghan Taliban’s top leadership, in what is being portrayed as a crucial blow to the insurgent movement.
The Netherlands’ coalition government collapsed after the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw Dutch troops from Afghanistan later this year.
An Afghan Taliban spokesman denied reports that the organization’s military commander Mullah Baradar had been arrested by US and Pakistani forces in a secret operation.
Two NATO rockets aimed at insurgents in Helmand province missed their target, killing 12 civilians sheltering in their home. The strikes came as part of a new anti-Taliban offensive.
The deaths of three US Special Forces troops in a Taliban suicide attack in Pakistan reveal the existence of a military assistance program that authorities have sought to keep quiet.
As the Afghanistan summit opens in London, the US is pushing plans to buy off Taliban insurgents with aid and jobs—even if this means embracing reactionary tribal warlords.
Thousands of fresh foreign troops arrive in Afghanistan this year, but some aid agencies are voicing concerns that this could lead to the intensification of the conflict.
The Taliban carried out a daylight assault on government centers and civilian targets in Kabul, creating panic and sparking gun battles in the heart of the city.
US Department of Defense released the names of prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in response to an FOIA request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose dramatically last year according to the latest annual survey by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Afghan officials signed an agreement to take over the US military’s controversial Parwan Detention Center that was formerly housed at Bagram Air Base.
Four were killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan—hours after Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani again voiced official objection to the ongoing US strikes on Pakistan’s territory.
