U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl endured some of the worst abuse any U.S. prisoner of war has seen for decades while being held for five years by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a defense official has testified.
The Pakistani Taliban has launched an attack on a military base near the northwestern city of Peshawar, triggering a bloody firefight with Pakistani forces.
A media watchdog says scores of Afghan journalists have recently left for Europe to join hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants fleeing the Middle East and Africa.
Taliban militants have stormed a prison in the central Afghan city of Ghazni, killing police officers and releasing hundreds of prisoners.
U.S. intelligence chiefs have repeated their assessment that Iraq and Syria may have been permanently fractured by war and sectarian strife and may not survive as nation-states.
A purported NATO air strike killed scores of policemen in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Helmand.
Tajik officials say eight police officers were killed in attacks in and around the capital, Dushanbe, early on September 4, prompting the U.S. Embassy to close and sparking fears of further violence in the Central Asian nation.
Amnesty International is condemning as "abhorrent" the public flogging of a man and a woman in Afghanistan for "adultery."
The Taliban has published a 5,000-word biography of Mullah Akhtar Mansur, its recently named successor to spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
After heavy fighting, Talban militants have grabbed a key district in restive Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced on August 25 that human rights activists from Russia, Afghanistan, and the Balkans have been named as the finalists for the 2015 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize.
The United States added the brother of the head of the Haqqani Network to its list of "specially designated global terrorists," the State Department said on August 25.
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