KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A tribal elder was gunned down Tuesday ... be a critical test of the Afghan war. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying ...

Before I left, many people both in the capital and in Kandahar told me that the Taliban had indeed changed, “but for the worse.” One of them was a tribal elder and an anti-Taliban police chief ...

according to a tribal elder, Tawhidi, who spoke on the condition that he be identified only by his last name for fear of reprisals. He said he has witnessed Taliban fighters carrying out summary ...

“Allah kills and the cruel get rid of the cruel,” an Afghan elder there told The Daily Beast. “Who could believe that the whole family of the Taliban symbol of cruelty, Dadullah, would be ...

Local elders in northwest Pakistan say a suspected drone strike has killed four children and wounded five others ...

she would return to marry a Taliban elder. Instead, the U.S. military offered her a job, after hearing about her ability to outsmart the Taliban. “I was not only a translator, I was like a ...

The elder Haqqani was considered a key member of the Haqqani network, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization headed by his nephew, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who serves as the de facto Taliban ...

A Taliban fighter called the family to inform ... the loving memories his relatives have of a hard-working and selfless elder son. She describes how he had ambitions of lifting up the family ...

The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man’s claim to be 140 years old – which, if verified, would make him the oldest person ever to have lived. Aqel Nazir, who lives in the country’s ...