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latest news & developmentsTaliban: S Korea paid over $20m ransom
South Korea paid Afghanistan’s Taliban more than -million to release 19 missionaries they were holding hostage, a senior insurgent leader said on Saturday, vowing to use the…
Taliban warns of ‘bloody attacks’
The Taliban has deployed 10 000 fighters for a spring offensive of ”bloody attacks” against foreign troops in Afghanistan, a rebel commander said on Friday. More than 4 000…
Afghans flee town as Taliban dig in for Nato raid
More than 1 000 villagers have fled a southern Afghan town as Taliban fighters dig in to repel Nato efforts to drive them out, residents and officials said on Wednesday. Helmand…
Recruits promised booty on Earth, virgins in the next
Saifullah was tired of his exhausting job as a blacksmith in a Pakistani village when a friend suggested he join the jihad, or holy war, against United States troops in…
Afghanistan reels after suicide attacks kill 26
Afghanistan’s border town of Spin Boldak was in shock on Tuesday after one of the biggest suicide bombings since the Taliban’s fall in 2001 killed 22 people leaving a wrestling…