Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Saturday announced the start of their annual “spring offensive” against the US-backed government, vowing a nationwide series of attacks as foreign troops withdraw.
The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, on Tuesday denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston.
Two more U.S. Marines face criminal charges over a 2011 YouTube video showing members of a sniper platoon urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Taliban militants wearing suicide vests fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at an army post in northwestern Pakistan in a pre-dawn raid Saturday, killing 23 people, including 10 civilians, officials said.
With tears streaming down their faces, scores of suspected Afghan militants embraced waiting relatives and walked to freedom — just one sign of increasing attempts at reconciliation after 11 years of war.
A U.S. prosecutor said Friday that a Muslim cleric and his son who are accused of funneling thousands of dollars to the Pakistani Taliban did so “in the name of a perverted form of the Muslim faith.”
Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani soldiers who they had kidnapped in raids on two camps outside Peshawar in the troubled northwest of the country, officials said Sunday.
A U.S. drone fired a pair of missiles at a house in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Thursday, killing three suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Pakistan marked “Malala Day” Saturday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, but in her home town security fears meant her schoolmates could not honour her in public.
UN special envoy Gordon Brown on Friday presented a petition with more than a million signatures in support of shot schoolgirl education campaigner Malala Yousafzai to the Pakistan government.
Britain’s defense secretary says Prince Harry got extra protection when the Taliban attacked his base in Afghanistan last Friday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack against a sprawling British base in southern Afghanistan that killed two US Marines and wounded several other troops, saying it was to avenge an anti-Islamic film which insulted the Prophet Muhammad and also because Britain’s Prince Harry is
Two US Marines were killed in an attack Saturday on the military post in southern Afghanistan where Britain’s Prince Harry is based, officials said, adding he was “not in any danger”.
