The future of Kunduz, a strategic provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, hangs in the balance as Afghan government forces scramble to launch a counteroffensive to retake the city after its fall to the Taliban on September 28.
The U.S. military says it has carried out air strikes against Taliban forces overnight in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz as security forces battle the Islamic militants for control of the city.
An Afghan official says the northern city of Kunduz has been captured by the Taliban after hours of clashes with security forces.
Taliban fighters have seized most of Kunduz Province’s capital in northern Afghanistan after hours of clashes with security forces.
Taliban fighters have launched a new assault on the capital of the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.
Saudi Arabia says 52 more people have been added to the official death toll from a stampede at the annual hajj two days ago, raising the total to 769 killed and 934 injured.
Saudi officials say 717 people have been killed and 805 others injured in a stampede during the hajj, the deadliest tragedy to strike the annual Muslim pilgrimage in 25 years.
Reports that U.S. military officers are being disciplined for trying to stop the rape of boys by Afghan defense forces brought condemnation but no pledge of change from the White House and the Pentagon.
A secret military court in Pakistan has sentenced nine men to death and one to life in prison after convicting them of involvement in different cases of terrorism, the military said September 21.
A Taliban group in Afghanistan says the militant extremist movement may split into two factions because they cannot agree on who should be leader following the death of their founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar.
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.
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