Pakistani Taliban suicide bombing of churches leaves 14 dead, 80 injured
Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility of suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani More...
White House: Josh Earnest says Taliban not terrorists
While the United States waged a lengthy war in Afhganistan to disrupt the power of the Taliban, the message from the Obama administration is that members of this group are not terrorists. “They do carry out tactics More...
US draws down troops in Afghanistan, Taliban declares victory
The U.S. has formally ended the war in Afghanistan. The Taliban declared “defeat” of the U.S. and its allied forces, saying the Americans failed and didn’t accomplish “anything substantial or tangible.” In More...
Pakistan: Taliban attack school, kill over 130, 100 were students
More than 130 people, 100 being students,were killed and 122 others injured in a Taliban seizure of a military-run school in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan, according to provincial authorities on Tuesday. The actual More...
Malala Yousafzai wins World Children’s Prize, donates prize money to rebuild Gaza school
Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old advocate for girls’ education, has donated $50,000 in prize money to rebuild a Gaza school that was damaged in the Israel-Hamas war. Yousafzai was awarded the World Children’s More...
Death toll from Afghanistan car bombing reaches 89, doubles initial reports
The initial reports from media sources stated that a car bombing in Afghanistan killed 38, but now is being revised to reflect almost 90 deaths. Paktika is along the eastern border with PakistanImage/CIA A suicide More...
John Kerry on release of Taliban from Gitmo endangers US troops, ‘baloney’
Critics of the Obama administration have zeroed in on the release of the five Taliban leaders from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for Bowe Bergdahl. Now Secretary of State John Kerry spoke on CNN about the More...
Afghanistan Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah survives bombing
The Afghan Interior Ministry said a suicide bomber and a roadside bomb have struck the convoy of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah as it left a campaign event in the capital Kabul. Friday’s explosions More...
Bowe Bergdahl free as Obama administration attacked by GOP for freeing ‘hard core terrorists’
Many in Washington on unahppy and concerned over the prisoner sway for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Saturday. Bergdahl has been held by Taliban for five years and was freed in exchange for five militants from the US More...
Army Cpt Tye Reedy talks ‘The Hornet’s Nest,’ Afghanistan War
Army Cpt. Tye Reedy spoke with The Global Dispatch/Dispatch Radio about the new film, The Hornet’s Nest, which takes audiences into the depths of the war in Afghanistan. The film was put together using footage More...
Afghan war explodes to life in ‘The Hornet’s Nest’ movie trailer, poster
PRESS RELEASE: The Hornet’s Nest is a groundbreaking and immersive feature film, documenting the drastic turn of events when a single day, routine strike turns into nine intense days of harrowing combat against More...
Taliban target Pakistan army compound, kill 20 troops in bombing
A Taliban bombing inside an army compound in northwest Pakistan killed at least 20 troops Sunday, officials said. The blast was a heavy blow for the Pakistani military which has been fighting a stubborn insurgency More...
6 Soldiers dead, 1 survive Black Hawk helicopter crash in Afghanistan
The Taliban claim they shot the chopper down, initial reports claim there was a mechanical failure, but the end results is that six US soldiers are dead and one narrowly survived. Pentagon and military officials More...
Malala Yousafzai denied Nobel Peace Prize, anti-chemical weapons group takes top honor
The teen schoolgirl from Pakistan may have been the favorite to win the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize announced in Oslo, Norway, but a chemical weapons watchdog won the top award. The Organization for the Prohibition of More...
US consulate in Afghanistan attacked after anniversary of 9/11 by Taliban, 3 dead
A huge explosion rocked the area near the U.S. consulate in Afghanistan’s Herat province early Friday during a heavy gunfight between militants and security forces, officials said. The attackers sped towards More...
US battles Afghan, Karzai over peace ‘talks’ with Taliban
Secretary of State John Kerry assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the government of Qatar took down a sign board under the name of “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” adding that the United States is More...
Nawaz Sharif declares victory in Pakistan election, death toll from attacks rises to 29
Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif has declared victory in the country’s general elections as preliminary results showed a clear lead for his party as the death toll across the country rose to 29. Militant attacks More...
Taliban captures Turks, Afghan and Russians from NATO helicopter
Taliban insurgents seized an Afghan pilot and nine foreign nationals from a transport helicopter after it was forced to make an emergency landing late Sunday night in eastern Afghanistan, authorities said Tuesday. Taliban More...
Taliban attack in Afghanistan leaves 13 Afghan soldiers dead, seizing ammunition and weapons
Taliban militants attacked an army outpost near the eastern border with Pakistan on Friday, killing 13 soldiers, the Defense Ministry said. Image/CIA Violence is increasing as the weather conditions have improved, More...
Nato airstrike kills 6 militants, but also claims the lives of 11 children and 1 woman
A Nato air strike has killed 11 children and a woman in eastern Afghanistan, according to local officials. The strike targeted militants in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province, which is on the border More...
