Pakistani authorities, in an effort to persuade the Afghan Taliban to participate in peace talks, reportedly warned the terrorist group that it will pay a heavy prize if it continues to perpetrate violence.
Contents: Afghan Taliban launches ‘Spring Fighting Season’ with massive Kabul explosion; China tests its DF-41 long-range nuclear missile with multiple warheads; Turkey threatens to cancel migrant deal unless visa restrictions are lifted by June; Violence surges in Syria as ‘peace talks’ collapse becomes official
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is reportedly concerned about an increase in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recruitment at religious schools and universities within its borders and the jihadist group’s growing presence in and around the country despite a crackdown on Islamist organizations carried out by the Pakistani military.
A resurgent al-Qaeda is “very active” and poses a “big threat” to Afghanistan, the country’s acting defense minister told CNN.
Some Afghan security forces trained by the United States are defecting to the Taliban, CNN reports.
Contents: John Kerry instructs Afghanistan officials how to run their government; Troubles mount for Afghanistan government as US withdrawal looms
The Afghan Taliban reportedly claims U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was the target of the rocket strikes that struck Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday night.
Two weeks removed from the Lahore Easter massacre, enraged Pakistanis need a government willing not just to combat individual jihadis, but uproot jihadi ideology from Pakistan’s mainstream.
A retired Marine Corps German shepherd named Lucca was awarded a top military medal after losing one of her legs while searching for homemade bombs in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan intelligence operatives have discovered rampant sexual abuse of minors at a Taliban-run prison in southern Helmand province.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is attempting to expand its presence in Afghanistan, Khaama Press reports, citing a lawmaker from the eastern Afghan province Ghazni.
The largest Muslim sect in the UK, controlling half of Britain’s Mosques, hosted an Al-Qaeda associate of Osama bin Laden who spoke to numerous future terrorists as he toured their mosques across the country. The Deobandi sect was founded in
Both the United States and Saudi Arabia have announced sanctions against four individuals, and two groups they are associated with, based on allegations they have provided financial support to global terrorism.
A U.S. pilot safely ejected before the U.S. F-16 warplane he was flying crashed during an evening takeoff near Bagram Air Field, the largest American military base located north of the Afghan capital Kabul, according to the Pentagon.
Pakistani security forces killed at least five terrorists and arrested over 600 suspects in large-scale operation in the country’s eastern Punjab province, reports state-controlled Chinese outlet Xinhua.
The Taliban took responsibility for launching a rocket that landed on the new parliament building located west of the Afghan capital Kabul.
The head of the National Border Patrol Council says a breach in the fence along a ten-mile area in remote areas of the Mexico-Arizona border should cause concern about terrorist threats.
The Islamist terror group behind Sunday’s suicide bombing in Pakistan has declared that the intended target of the religiously motivated attack that killed more than 70 children and adults was “Christians.” Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, has
Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, joined host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily Monday morning to discuss the horrific massacre of Christians in Pakistan on Easter Sunday. Shea is the author of Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians.
The death toll for the Easter-Day massacre in central Pakistan has risen to 72 victims, mostly women and children, along with at least 320 injured. Breitbart News reported that a suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday evening in an attack
The Taliban has said it will not engage in peace talks with the Afghan government because it is winning in Afghanistan.
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A 12-year-old boy surrendered to Afghan authorities in Nangarhar province after he decided not to carry out his suicide mission.
Contents: Taliban reject Pakistan pressure on Afghanistan peace process; Bomb blast in bus in Peshawar Pakistan kills 15
The Taliban has officially conquered five of the 14 districts in southern Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, the New York Times (NYT) reports, citing Afghan government officials.
Gen. John F. Campbell, who served as the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces “in Afghanistan until earlier this month,” has reportedly asked President Obama for the authority to offensively attack the Taliban again.
U.S. Army Gen. John W. “Mick” Nicholson has assumed command of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan in the midst of a vicious Taliban resurgence and a growing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) presence.
Pakistan serves as a sanctuary for Taliban leaders, admitted an adviser to the Pakistani prime minister, echoing the most recent Pentagon report on the situation in Afghanistan.
The U.S.-backed government of Afghanistan is turning to China for help in expanding the “extremely limited” capabilities of the Afghan Air Force (AAF).
TEL AVIV – The leading Pakistani daily accused the U.S. and its allies of creating the Islamic State as an excuse for attacking Muslim countries, MEMRI reported Tuesday. The Urdu-language Roznama Ummat published an editorial titled “Daesh [the Islamic State]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fabled Navy SEAL Team Six member Edward Byers was presented with the Medal of Honor at the White House for his role in rescuing an American doctor being held captive by Afghan Taliban terrorists in 2012.
Provincial police report that a senior Taliban commander was shot dead by a woman in the northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, because he barged into her home uninvited.
The international coalition made a mistake by dethroning the Taliban regime in response to the 9/11 attacks on the United States and should have instead only focused on al Qaeda, argues the Canadian commander who led NATO into southern Afghanistan nearly a decade ago.
The latest Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) propaganda video purportedly shows the terror group training for combat against the Taliban in Afghanistan, concluding with the bloody execution of a captive, as many ISIS videos do.
Aided by Moroccan police, Spanish counterterrorism units broke up a jihadist cell in North Africa Tuesday, arresting four suspected members of the cell including a former Guantanamo inmate, wanted for recruiting terrorists for the Islamic State. According to separate statements
The national security parole board for Guantánamo Bay has approved the transfer of 35-year-old Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmed, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, to an as-yet-undetermined “Arab-speaking country” that can offer “appropriate security assurances.”
The U.S.-led international coalition in Afghanistan continues to be drawn “into direct combat situations” despite having transitioned from a combat mission to a train, assist, and advise (TAA) role at the beginning of 2015, according to a United Nations report.
The number of Afghan civilian fatalities and injuries hit 11,002 in 2015, marking the highest number of total civilian casualties since the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) began tracking the data in 2009, officials have announced.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration has “significantly” increased its air strikes against the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan since the president granted commanders broader authority last month to target the jihadist group there, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday.
Clashes between Taliban militants and loyalists of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Paktika province, Afghanistan, have left several people dead.
