Jacob Evans had no hint of the mine that ripped into his legs. Neither did his dog, nor the US patrol that had already walked over the buried charge.
They fly at 50 000ft, are virtually invisible and carry a deadly payload of missiles and bombs. Meet the Reaper, a new variety of heavily armed drone.
This week’s international conference in the Afghan capital of Kabul finally put dialogue with the Taliban on the agenda.
Nato blamed the Taliban on Thursday over an attack on an Afghan wedding that killed more than 40 people.
Suspected Taliban gunmen in Pakistan set fire to more than 50 trucks carrying supplies for Western forces in Afghanistan, killing at least seven.
Evidence of ties between the failed New York bomber and Pakistan’s Taliban may only lead investigators to a murky militant network.
US authorities were still questioning a Pakistani-American man on Wednesday, who they say admitted trying to bomb New York’s Times Square.
As training jobs go, United States Colonel Bernard Mater’s task of mentoring the fledgling Afghan air force is among the more daunting ones.
Suspected Islamist militants attacked a Pakistani checkpost near the US consulate in Peshawar on Monday, hours after a suicide bomber killed 38.
Pakistani troops killed at least 34 militants after about 150 Taliban attacked a military checkpost in the north-west on Friday.
Twin blasts rocked Lahore on Friday, hitting a high-security military district and killing at least 39 people.
Corporal Jacob Turbett gave out a single groan of pain before the Taliban bullet, which had pierced his heart, ended his life.
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/ 26 February 2010
At least 14 people were killed and 32 wounded in Taliban attacks in Kabul on Friday, the latest audacious assault in the Afghan capital.
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/ 25 February 2010
The Afghan flag was raised over a town at the centre of a United States-led offensive to capture a key Taliban stronghold on Thursday.
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/ 18 February 2010
Taliban insurgents are using civilians as human shields against the United States-led attack, a senior Afghan commander said on Wednesday.
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/ 13 February 2010
US-led Nato troops launched an offensive on Saturday against the Taliban’s last big stronghold in Afghanistan’s most violent province.
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/ 12 February 2010
US-led troops on Friday dropped leaflets warning Afghans not to shelter the Taliban as the troops prepared to assault a key insurgent bastion.
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/ 18 January 2010
Taliban gunmen, some wearing suicide vests, launched a commando-style assault on government buildings in the centre of Kabul on Monday.
Pakistani authorities faced a backlash on Sunday over security and medical failures after a suicide bomber killed 99 people at a volleyball game.
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/ 4 December 2009
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a mosque near Pakistan’s military headquarters after Friday prayers, killing at least 40 people.
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/ 1 December 2009
A suicide bomber killed a provincial parliamentarian in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after walking into the official’s house along with guests.
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/ 25 November 2009
Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban militia, on Wednesday rejected a call from President Hamid Karzai for peace talks.
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/ 13 November 2009
A suicide bomber struck near a United States military base in Kabul on Friday, wounding foreign soldiers and Afghan civilians, officials said.
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/ 10 November 2009
Pakistani Taliban have started a guerrilla war against the army, a Taliban spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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/ 5 November 2009
The UN said on Thursday it would start evacuating hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan after an attack by Taliban militants.
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/ 4 November 2009
Pakistani troops were on Wednesday locked in deadly street battles with Taliban fighters.
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/ 30 October 2009
”We’re caught in the middle,” Abdul Rahim tells US Marines as they try to induce his fellow Afghan villagers to turn on Taliban fighters.
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/ 29 October 2009
A US-based rights group on Thursday urged Pakistan to ensure that sufficient supplies reach civilians trapped by a massive anti-Taliban offensive.
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/ 28 October 2009
Taliban militants killed six UN staff in an assault on a guesthouse in Kabul on Wednesday, raising questions about security for the November 7 run-off
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/ 22 October 2009
Suspected Taliban militants shot and killed a Pakistani army brigadier and his driver in the capital on Thursday.
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/ 19 October 2009
Displaced families on Monday spoke of air raids as they struggled to survive with thousands who have fled Pakistan’s anti-Taliban offensive.
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/ 18 October 2009
More than 30 000 Pakistani soldiers launched a long-expected assault on the Taliban lair of South Waziristan on Sunday.