HERAT, Afghanistan: Seven people, including two children, were killed in an air strike in western Afghanistan on Friday that was aimed at the house of a Taliban commander, a district official said.
There was no immediate comment from...
Bajaur Agency Taliban commander Faqir Muhammad on Thursday warned the Salarzai Tribe to stop co-operating with the government or face militant action, tribal sources said. The tribe has formed a lashkar (a private volunteer army), which set fire to...
Five militants, including a Taliban commander, surrendered to the authorities on Monday.
Taliban commander Maulvi Hazrat Nabi surrendered to the political authorities at the office of the assistant political agent in Landi Kotal.
Landi...
Gen. David D. McKiernan's appeal for a coordinated inquiry came four days after U.N. officials in Afghanistan said their investigators had found "convincing evidence" that at least 60 children and 30 adults were killed in the Aug. 21 airstrike in...
Background
The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, also anglicised as Taleban) are a Sunni Islamist movement that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when their leaders were removed from power by a cooperative military effort between the Northern Alliance and NATO countries. Committed fundamentalist insurgents, often described as "Taliban" in the media, originating in the Frontier Tribal Areas of Pakistan, are currently engaged in a protracted guerrilla war against the current government of Afghanistan, allied NATO forces participating in Operation Enduring Freedom, and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
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