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Mar 06, 2016
Taliban says rejects futile Afghanistan peace talks | Reuters
KABUL The Taliban said on Saturday it would not take part in peace talks brokered by representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States, casting doubt on efforts to revive negotiations. The Taliban, ousted from power in a U.S.-led military intervention in 2001, has been waging a violent insurgency to try to topple Afghanistan's Western-backed government and re-establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime -
Mar 05, 2016
Taliban says will not take part in Afghan peace talks | Reuters
KABUL The Taliban said on Saturday it would not take part in peace talks brokered by a four-way group including representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and the United States. The Taliban, ousted from power in a U.S.-led military intervention in 2001, has been waging a violent insurgency to try to topple the Western-backed Afghan government and reestablish a fundamentalist Islamic regime. Following a meeting of the so-called Quadrilateral Coordination Group made up of representatives of the four countries in Kabul in February, officials said they expected direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban to begin in early March -
Nov 23, 2015
Family of former Taliban leader Mullah Omar unhappy with infighting, might refuse Mansoor as chief
Afghan Taliban's former chief Mullah Omar's son and the brother may turn down positions in the new powerful leadership council of the militant group over recent assaults against members of a breakaway faction. -
Oct 27, 2015
Pakistan says militants firing from Afghanistan kill seven soldiers | Reuters
WANA, Pakistan Islamist militants firing from Afghanistan into Pakistan killed seven Pakistani paramilitary soldiers on Tuesday, officials said, in an attack likely to put more strain on tense relations between the neighbours. Afghanistan and Pakistan routinely trade accusations of doing too little to prevent Taliban fighters and other militants operating in the other's territory -
Sep 13, 2015
Al Qaeda chief urges lone wolf attacks, militant unity | Reuters
CAIRO Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside there and urged greater unity between militants. "I call on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader coalition not to hesitate. -
Aug 20, 2015
In Egypt, the disappeared resurface on TV as terrorists | Reuters
CAIRO Plainclothes Egyptian state security officers pounced on Suhayb Saad as he left a Cairo restaurant in June. They blindfolded the activist and his two dining companions, a student and a photojournalist, and drove them away in a white minivan in what relatives and rights groups describe as enforced disappearances. -
Jul 31, 2015
Reports of Haqqani network founder's death, but family denies | Reuters
WANA/PESHAWAR, Pakistan Family members on Friday denied reports of the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the fearsome Haqqani militant network blamed for some of Afghanistan's deadliest suicide attacks. -
Jul 29, 2015
Taliban leader Mullah Omar declared dead, but does it even matter now?
This is by no means the first “confirmation” of the death of the former Head of the Supreme Council of Afghanistan (between 1996 and 2001), but the significance of his “death” has waned over the years. -
Jul 29, 2015
Taliban leader Mullah Omar declared dead, again
The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has died, according to the Afghan officials. The militant group has not commented on the claim. -
May 05, 2015
Riding on Modi's popularity: Al Qaeda's video is namedropping to show up IS
one notices a discernible penchant of the AQIS for name-dropping in its video message, which must only be viewed as another botched up operation. -
Sep 15, 2013
Pakistani "Father of Taliban" keeps watch over loyal disciples
AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan (Reuters) - He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani cleric who calls the Taliban's one-eyed leader an "angel" and runs a seminary described as the University of Jihad. -
Jun 19, 2013
United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The United States will meet the Taliban in Doha in the coming days for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, where the United States has battled the insurgents for 12 years, U.S. -
Jun 18, 2013
U.S. to hold Afghan peace talks with Taliban in Doha
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Th=e United States will meet the Taliban in Doha for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, where the United States has battled the insurgents for 12 years, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, warned that the process would likely be lengthy -
Jun 18, 2013
US to hold talks with Taliban in Doha next week
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, warned that the process would likely be lengthy. -
Jan 08, 2013
Iraqi troops fire in air to disperse Sunni protesters
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi troops fired in the air to disperse Sunni Muslim protesters on Monday as more than two weeks of unrest threatened to unravel Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki 's fragile cross-sectarian government. Thousands of anti-Maliki protesters have taken to the streets in Sunni strongholds across Iraq, increasing fears that turmoil in neighbouring Syria may help tip Iraq back into sectarian violence a year after the last U.S -
Oct 24, 2012
Haj pilgrimage starts in Mecca
MECCA (Reuters) - Nearly 3 million Muslim pilgrims started the first phase of the annual haj on Wednesday, travelling through packed streets from Mecca's Grand Mosque to the enormous camp at Mina just outside the Saudi Arabian city.
