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Girl shot by Taliban discharged from UK hospital
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani education activist shot in the head by the Taliban, was discharged from a British hospital Friday after ...
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban receives OKC award
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum plans to present its 2013 Reflections of Hope Award to a 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot by a ...
Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet
Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan ...
NATO helicopter crashes in eastern Afghanistan
A NATO helicopter crashed Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, but no crew members were seriously injured, officials said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah ...
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban appears on video
In her first video statement since she was nearly killed, a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban remained defiant in arguing for girls' education, ...
Pakistan ready for peace talks with militants
Pakistan's interior minister said Monday that the government was ready to hold peace talks with domestic Taliban militants who have been waging a ...
Taliban peace talks flounder as troops draw down
The Afghan peace effort is floundering, fraught with mistrust and confusion among key players even though the hard-line Taliban militants show signs ...
Girl shot by Taliban undergoes 2 operations in UK
A Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban is in stable condition after undergoing two successful operations to reconstruct her ...
Kabul police arrest 6 suspected suicide bombers
Afghan police on Sunday arrested six men and seized suicide vests, assault rifles and more than 50 hand grenades during a raid on a residential ...
23 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan army post
Taliban militants wearing suicide vests fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at an army post in northwestern Pakistan in a pre-dawn ...
Militants attack Pakistani army camp; 6 killed
Militants attacked an army camp in northwestern Pakistan with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades before dawn on Saturday, killing six ...
American deaths in Afghan war drop to 4-year low
U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan have plunged to the lowest level in four years, reflecting a pullback from direct combat into the less deadly role ...
Girl shot by Taliban to undergo final surgery
A Pakistani girl whose defiance of the Taliban turned her into an international icon is headed toward recovery once she undergoes a final surgery to ...
Karzai: Afghan government should lead peace talks
Afghanistan's president warned on Tuesday that all efforts at peace talks with the Taliban should go through the government, and appealed on the ...
Mali military enters fabled town of Timbuktu
Backed by French helicopters and paratroopers, Malian soldiers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu on Monday after al-Qaida-linked militants who ruled ...
China could prove ultimate winner in Afghanistan
China, long a bystander to the conflict in Afghanistan, is stepping up its involvement as U.S.-led forces prepare to withdraw, attracted by the ...
700 alleged militants held in limbo in Pakistan
Pakistan is holding 700 suspected militants without charges under a controversial law that has been criticized by human rights organizations, the ...
Prince Harry back in UK after Afghan deployment
Prince Harry returned to Britain on Wednesday after a 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, landing on a military plane in light snow at the Brize Norton ...
Prince Harry's wartime role draws reprisal fears
Prince Harry's admission that he killed Taliban fighters while working as a helicopter gunner in Afghanistan drew intense British media coverage ...
UK's Prince Harry returns from Afghanistan
Capt. Wales is coming home to be Prince Harry once again. The Ministry of Defense revealed Monday that the 28-year-old prince is returning from a ...
Taliban attacks show Afghan insurgents' resilience
Taliban suicide bombers carried out a brazen attack in the Afghan capital on Monday, the second in less than a week and a sign that insurgents are ...
Official: Pakistan to free more Afghan detainees
Pakistan plans to release more Afghan militant detainees in an attempt to boost the peace process in neighboring Afghanistan ahead of the departure ...
Judge dismisses terror charges against Fla. cleric
Citing a lack of evidence, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed terrorism support and conspiracy charges against the younger of two Muslim clerics ...
Official refuses court order to arrest Pakistan PM
Pakistan's anti-corruption chief refused a Supreme Court order to arrest the prime minister on Thursday, citing a lack of evidence in a graft case ...
US envoy says Taliban peace process stuck
The United States wants serious peace negotiations with the Taliban to begin, but it has not been possible to get the process under way, the American ...