Taliban 

Obama wiggling on pledge to exit Afghanistan

8 weeks ago

Raging Taliban insurgency may require more U.S. troops, not a 2011 gradual withdrawal as promised

Punjab links with Taliban alleged

8 weeks ago

Pakistani clerics accuse Punjab's leaders of contacts with the Taliban, a week after a deadly shrine attack in Lahore.

Petraeus arrives in Afghanistan

2 months ago

US Gen David Petraeus arrives in Afghanistan to take command of American and Nato forces fighting the Taliban insurgency.

New U.S. commander pushes faltering Afghan war effort

2 months ago

KABUL (Reuters) - The United States' top field commander arrived in Afghanistan on Friday to take charge of the faltering war, pledging to tackle the nine-year-old Taliban insurgency with a strategy he successfully pioneered in Iraq.

Taliban attack U.S. company, five killed

2 months ago

Bombers, gunmen storm contracting company in northern Afghanistan