The Taliban claimed responsibility for a large suicide car bomb that detonated on Saturday in the heart of Kabul’s most secure neighbourhood.
Pakistan on Tuesday demanded that Taliban commanders release a video to substantiate their claim that Baitullah Mehsud survived a US drone attack.
Aides of tribal chief deny he was killed in drone strike, while military says meeting to pick his successor turned into shoot-out.
The reported death of the chief of Pakistan’s Taliban movement will not hurt the Taliban cause in Afghanistan, a spokesperson said on Friday.
Pakistan believes Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has a m bounty on his head, was probably killed in a missile strike.
Local vigilantes allied to Pakistani soldiers on Thursday claimed to have killed at least 167 militants in two months.
The Taliban have warned Afghans that possessing pictures of ”unrelated women and handsome boys” was against Islamic law.
A Taliban code of conduct that pledges to limit attacks on civilians and curb suicide bombings appears aimed at mustering support among Afghan people.
Afghanistan’s Taliban movement on Thursday ordered voters to boycott August elections and wage holy war to ”free” the country from Western troops.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Monday called for ”a more coherent effort” to achieve a political solution in Afghanistan.
The Taliban have adopted rules for the handling of captured ”infidel fighters”, according to reports on Monday.
Britain said on Monday it supports more efforts to talk to hardline insurgents fighting in Afghanistan.
The Taliban on Thursday denied claims that Maulana Fazlullah, architect of a brutal uprising in Pakistan’s Swat valley, was wounded.
United States Marines pushed deeper into Taliban strongholds on Friday.
The son of one of Pakistan’s most prominent anti-Taliban Muslim clerics fears that his father’s murder could spark more sectarian violence.
Pakistan braced for militant reprisals on Monday ahead of an assault on the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
Warplanes struck a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Saturday in retaliation for the killing of an anti-Taliban cleric.
A prominent anti-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric was killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Lahore, police said.
The Pakistani army attacked an area bordering a militant stronghold near the Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, killing scores of Taliban fighters
Pakistani police on Wednesday pulled bodies from the rubble of a luxury hotel in north-west Peshawar after a suicide car bomb killed 16 people.
Pakistan’s army had ”turned the tide” against the Taliban and aimed to completely eradicate them from the Swat valley, the army chief said on Friday.
It ought to be damnably difficult to defeat the Taliban, but it seems strangely easy.
Pakistani troops on Monday pressed their offensive against the Taliban in the northwest Swat district, closing in on a key town.
The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on police and intelligence agency offices that killed about 30 people.
A suicide car bomb attack on Wednesday flattened a police building in the Pakistani city of Lahore, killing 23 people.
Pakistanis trapped by an offensive in Swat face catastrophe and authorities should lift a curfew to enable them to get out, Human Rights Watch said.
Three decades of war and unrest have left Afghanistan’s infrastructure in pieces, with few and badly equipped hospitals.
Pakistan’s military said on Tuesday they were locked in fierce street battles with Taliban fighters in the north-west of the country.
Pakistani authorities temporarily lifted a curfew on Friday to enable thousands of people to flee the fighting in the militant bastion of Swat.
Pakistan will defeat the Taliban militarily but could lose the public relations war if it fails to help those displaced, the premier said on Thursday.
Pakistan’s moderate clerics are mobilising support for the government as it battles the Taliban, warning that militants could take over the country
Warnings of refugee crisis in Pakistan with 1,3-million on the run as minister pledges to continue fight until ”the last” militant is killed.