“The capture of top Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi is a major coup in the Afghan war, but it is still unclear what impact it will have in the longer term,” says Asia Society ...

Another witness described the Taliban's capture of the district and the search ... Arbab Hassan], the elders saw Jan Agha, a local Tajik commander, sitting in a Taliban "Datsun" (a pickup truck).

The blast came a day after Mansoor Dadullah, a wanted Taliban commander, and four associates were captured during a raid in Baluchistan at the border with Afghanistan. Another was killed.

Bowe Bergdahl was captured three weeks ago in the Paktika ... which they claim target civilians, according to Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen contacted by telephone by CNN Friday at an undisclosed ...

Its intelligence penetration among the Taliban is quite deep and significant ... "As recently as last month, the U.S. CENTCOM commander predicted groups like ISIS-K will have the ability ...

His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they ...

The mission was simple: to search the village and kill or capture identified members of ... recommendation to the chain of command. While the commander made the ultimate decision, he rarely ...

The Taliban, during their rise to power, released thousands of fighters from prisons in Afghanistan, allowing captured fighters ... Michael Kurilla, the commander of U.S. Central Command, said ...

Abu Abdullah al Shafi, the top leader of Ansar al Islam, was captured along with seven ... in Afghanistan contradicts the Taliban’s claims that there are no foreign fighters based in the country. A ...