A suicide bomber tried to assassinate a prominent female member of Afghanistan's parliament, killing three people and wounding the lawmaker, a senior official said.
Qatar has joined the American-led coalition to fight ISIS, yet the emirate is a haven for anti-Western groups and foreign diplomats have reported seeing cars with ISIS logos in an affluent bay district.
A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Sunday at the main Pakistan-India border crossing, the blast tearing through crowds of spectators leaving after the colorful daily ceremony to close the frontier.
Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 22 soldiers and police,an official told Reuters.
Children's rights activists Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday.
The Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has claimed victory in Afghan war through his message issued on the occasion of Eid al-Adha.
Taliban suicide bombers struck two buses Carrying Afghan soldiers in Kabul early Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding 21, just a day after the signing of a key U.S.-Afghan security pact.
Afghanistan hosted a grand presidential inauguration, with Ashraf Ghani taking power as NATO troops end their 13-year war without defeating the Taliban.
At least 23 militants and 7 civilians have been killed in northwest Pakistan in attacks on rebels hideouts, a checkpoint clash and a motorcycle bombing.
Afghan security forces on Saturday fought back against a major Taliban offensive in the east of the country after the militants killed up to 100 security personnel and civilians, beheading 12 of them, officials said.
Several Taliban militants, including suicide bombers, launched coordinated attacks in Torkham, a border town, in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
So-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) pamphlets and flags have appeared in parts of Pakistan and India, alongside signs that the Takfiri group is inspiring militants even in the strongholds of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Since 2001, the US has undertaken regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya; all 3 countries are now in chaos and extremists are more in control than ever.
Information on nearly three-quarters of a million guns purchased by the US for the Afghan National Security Forces is either missing or duplicated, an audit of SIGAR inspectors revealed, sparking fears they could have ended up in Taliban hands.
Militants have set fire to hundreds of fuel tanker trucks in a parking lot on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, witnesses said Saturday.
Some half a million people in Pakistan have been displaced, leaving in poor conditions, due to military operations against pro-Taliban militants in the country’s North Waziristan region.
From Aleppo in northern Syria to almost eastern Iraq, the terrorists of ISIL and sundry other groupuscules have been paid by the Saudi Wahhabis – and by Kuwaiti oligarchs – now rule thousands of square miles.
Twenty-eight people were killed as Pakistan's military fought an all-night battle Monday with Taliban gunmen who besieged Karachi airport armed with rocket launchers and suicide vests, leaving a nascent peace process in tatters.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is furious at being kept in the dark over a secret deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for a captured US soldier, a senior source said on Monday.
Top American officials have defended a prisoner swap deal with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, describing it as a new opening to the terrorist group fighting the Afghan government and the same group that Washington claimed it invaded the country to root out.