World Taliban hang up Kalashnikovs to pen memoirs of Afghan war. Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan’s halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens.

Afghan authorities have recovered the bodies of five of the 16 policemen who vanished a week ago after an apparent Taliban attack on their remote base in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said ...

Aug. 27, 2012— -- The Taliban beheaded 17 people, including two women, for attending a mixed-gender party where there was music and dancing, Afghan officials reported today. The decapitated ...

Even in near-total darkness, the wounded Taliban fighter insists on masking his identity, his head and face covered by a tightly wound white cloth. Only two bright eyes and a confident voice tell ...

An Oct. 21 article about the alleged desecration of Taliban fighters' bodies in Afghanistan incorrectly referred to military spokesman Jim Yonts as an Army lieutenant colonel. His rank is colonel ...

Villagers in Pakistan's Swat valley have found the bodies of 14 suspected militants, reviving concern about extra-judicial killings after a successful army offensive against Taliban militants.

Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan's halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens to tell their version of the 20-year conflict with Western forces, ...