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Pakistani Christians have long protested the lack of government protection from terrorist attacks and random, unsubstantiated accusations of blasphemy. Sunday’s Taliban attack on two Christian churches in Lahore resulted in the death of at least 14 people, with many dozens wounded. Again, a lack of police presence seems to be a contributing factor in the violence.

A Pakistani branch of the Taliban has claimed responsibility for bombings outside two churches in Lahore Sunday morning. According to local media, the blasts killed 14 people and wounded more than 70.

WASHINGTON—The highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. armed forces, while testifying before lawmakers on Wednesday, linked a Taliban faction in Afghanistan to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), a former Iraq War veteran who served in the 101st Airborne Division and planned and led daily combat patrols, is a traitor. That’s according to Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), who called Cotton “Tehran Tom”

Pakistanis must provide their fingerprints for a database in order to purchase a new cell phone, pursuant to a new anti-terror law meant to keep track of conversations between potential jihadists. The consumer must comply or will lose the phone account on April 15.

The brother of an American woman who was killed after spending months as a hostage of Islamic State militants says Kayla Mueller’s situation worsened after the government traded five Taliban commanders for a captive U.S. soldier.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani indicated that peace negotiations between Afghanistan and the Taliban are within reach now, more than 13 years after the war began, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland.

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Friday after U.S. officials admitted that ISIS has spread into Afghanistan and Pakistan on CNN, the military adviser for Concerned Veterans for America, retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann discussed the Taliban defecting and re-branding themselves by swearing allegiance to ISIS.

The new issue of Dabiq, the Islamic State English-language magazine, is officially out. Its headlining story boasts the capture of a Mossad informant, but the magazine serves less to bring news than to reframe the war between the Islamic State and civilization as a revisiting of the Crusades.

Ever since the holiday season, the White House has made a variety of vague assurances that ISIS recruitment is ramping down, the flow of fighters into the Islamic State has been choked off, and the weakened terror state is on the run. This is certainly a development to be hoped for, but it does not seem to have happened yet. A burst of news reports over the last few days state that, on the contrary, ISIS recruiting is still going distressingly well, both in the Middle East and West. The Pentagon has also conceded that ISIS is expanding into Afghanistan, with some success at convincing Taliban groups to swear fealty to them.

Terrorists reportedly bombed a government school for girls in one of Pakistan’s restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border.

Released Guantanamo Bay prisoner Abdul Rauf, who recently pledged loyalty to ISIS, was killed by a drone strike in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said that at least one of the five high-level Taliban detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “could be expected” to re-engage in terrorist activities.

On Saturday, the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host, Judge Jeanine Pirro criticized the Obama administration for swapping five Taliban terrorists for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, but refusing to negotiate for the release of James Foley. “This week US

Friday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said the Obama administration has no plans to slow down or stop the release of terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, even after reports that one of the five prisoners traded

Sen. Harry Reid once praised the prisoner swap that freed Bowe Bergdahl last year.

The White House won’t call the Taliban terrorists, but the group is behaving like terrorists. It recently killed three Americans.

CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr reported that “several US officials” “suspect” that one of the five detainees traded for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “has returned to militant activity” on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Lead.” “Several US officials now confirm to me

The Associated Press reports on a horrific suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, which killed 16 and wounded 39 at a funeral for victims of previous Taliban violence.

Thursday at the White House daily press briefing, when press secretary Josh Earnest  stood behind yesterday’s refusal to call the Taliban terrorists, saying instead the Taliban “engages in tactics akin to terrorism,” CBS News’ White House correspondent Bill Plante and

Thursday at the White House daily press briefing, when questioned by ABC News’ chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, press secretary Josh Earnest  stood behind yesterday’s refusal to call the Taliban terrorists, saying the Taliban “engages in tactics akin to

The Pajhwok Afghan News reported the Taliban captured Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim along with 45 supporters. The United States detained Khadim at Guantanamo Bay, but released him to Afghanistan in 2007.

The Hill‘s Associate Editor A.B. Stoddard said it was “humiliating” that the White House refused to call the Taliban a terrorist group on Wednesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. “it’s humiliating…it is a failure to deal in reality. I

Wednesday at the White House daily press briefing, deputy press secretary Eric Schultz refused to call the Taliban a terrorist group, saying instead, “The Taliban is an armed insurgency,” several times when asked by ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl.

In his inaugural appearance at the podium of the White House press briefing room today, Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz stumbled when he was asked by a reporter if the administration considers the Taliban a terrorist group.

Following the Taliban’s mid-December attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, teachers are receiving guns and training to use them as part of a bid to beef up security.

By Tuesday afternoon, one thing was absolutely certain about the legal status of Bowe Bergdahl: he either will, or will not, be charged with desertion.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) , Feinstein said she is one democrate who does not support a “rapid pull out of american troops.” from Afghanistan because it will cause the Taliban and al Qaeda to

John Sundahl, former love interest to Britney Spears, and the man who assisted her with her public battle with alcohol addiction, has been killed in Afghanistan. Sundahl, 44, was reportedly working as a private contractor to shuttle officials across the

Gen. John Campbell, the top commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, said that a “younger piece” of the Taliban in Afghanistan may seek to join forces with the Islamic State despite the ideological differences between the two jihadist groups.

On Saturday, assorted jihadist Twitter and YouTube accounts released a video with Pakistani Taliban members pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS). To prove their loyalty, the men beheaded a man they claim was a Pakistani soldier.

The Taliban have been offered posts in the new Afghan government but have turned them down, the BBC understands.

Senior Taliban commander Ehsanullah Ehsan, one of the world’s best-known terror leaders, has been located after listing “jihad” as a skill on his LinkedIn account.

For the first time, Cameroon’s air force conducted air strikes in support of the army against Boko Haram positions in northern Cameroon, forcing the terrorists to retreat.

The man accused of masterminding the Pakistani blood bath in which 132 children were murdered has been killed, according to Army sources. Senior Taliban commander Saddam Jan was shot on Christmas Day in a notorious tribal region between Pakistan and