
US, Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war
The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the ...
A look at US-Taliban relations
Word that the Taliban and U.S. will hold formal talks to find a political solution to end nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan comes after years of ...

Fort Hood suspect says he was protecting Taliban
An Army psychiatrist charged with gunning down Fort Hood soldiers said Tuesday his defense would show that he was compelled to do so because deploying ...
Police: Car bomb kills 12 in southwest Pakistan
A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist ...

Afghanistan: Bomb kills 15, including 6 Americans
A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it ...

Violent separatists seek to derail Pakistan vote
The graffiti on walls around this Pakistani provincial capital hold a dire warning ahead of this weekend's national elections, "Voting means death.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Karzai opponents talk to Taliban
Afghan opposition parties, taking advantage of the government's lack of progress in making peace with the Taliban, have opened their own channel to ...

Commander encouraged by anti-Taliban uprising
Villagers in an area of southern Afghanistan that was the birthplace of the Taliban movement two decades ago have staged a first-of-its-kind uprising ...

Afghan leader alleges US, Taliban are colluding
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most ...

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 ...

Fears grow that Libya is incubator of turmoil
Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's ...

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 ...
Afghan negotiator welcomes prisoner release
A top Afghan negotiator said Tuesday he hopes eight Taliban members freed by Pakistan will serve as peace mediators, describing Islamabad's move as ...
Pakistan releases 8 Afghan Taliban prisoners
Pakistan released eight members of the Afghan Taliban from prison on Monday, including the former justice minister under the Taliban, in a bid to ...

In Afghan Taliban birthplace, US troops step back
President Barak Obama will decide in the coming weeks how many American troops to send home from Afghanistan next year. A major factor in his decision ...