Of the country’s 9.6 million registered voters (among a total population of 37 million), a total of just 1.82 million votes were counted. Of these, Mr Ghani achieved his victory by winning a paltry 923,592 votes, which can hardly be described as a commanding mandate.

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced hardline Islamist cleric Hafiz Mohammad Saeed to 11 years in jail for financing terrorist operations.

The Taliban has released yet another set of photographs from one of its military training camps. In the images, Taliban fighters are training in the open in a mountainous area that should be easily identified by the U.S. and Afghan militaries.

Afghan government forces and Taliban insurgents waged war against each other in the past 24 hours despite U.S. officials saying there had been a breakthrough in recent days in peace talks to end the 18-year-old conflict.

The Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP) announced today that its senior religious authority, Khalid Haqqani, and his comrade, Saifullah Peshawari, have been killed in a clash with “American slaves.”

Taliban commanders are under specific orders to step up their attacks on American troops, Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane said Monday in response to an attack that killed two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan over the weekend.

A leading member of the Pakistan Taliban has escaped custody more than two years after surrendering to authorities, said a senior security official.

A suicide attack near a military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, left six people dead on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.

The United States and the Taliban are poised to clinch a deal that would see the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the start of peace talks between the insurgents and the Afghan government. But the agreement will go ahead only if the Taliban abide by a pledge to reduce violence over a seven-day period, according to a Western official, an […]

After months of relative calm in the Afghan capital, a suicide bombing Tuesday morning outside a military academy left at least six dead and 12 wounded, according to the Ministry of Interior Affairs.