Country shifting focus from conventional warfare to special operations in effort to help defeat growing insurgency, emerging IS threat
Local Taliban leaders in Kunduz reportedly have met with Russian advisors across the Amu River in Tajikistan, according to Afghan media reports
Talha Haroon arrested in September after allegedly planning terrorist attack in New York
Since Friday, 12 people, including two policemen and four suspected militants, have been killed and 50 others injured in battles and explosions, authorities say
Main sources of income of terrorists in Pakistan include foreign funding, drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, extortion from business, vehicle snatching
Security operations by NATO and Afghan government forces have drastically reduced extremists' strength in Afghanistan in recent months
Qari Mohammad Yasin, who carried a bounty of about $48,000, masterminded several suicide attacks
Several militant groups are controlling large swaths of Sinai
Women were captured by IS fighters in Nangarhar province in early 2016, held for more than four months before they were released as part of prisoner-swap
Housing is part of increased campaign on Tehran's part to laud increasing involvement of Afghan Shi'ites in its military aims
Paul Overby, 74, last had contract with his wife on May 17, 2014, after leaving the Khost region of Afghanistan; Larson last month appealed for his release to Pakistani media
After at first covertly sending thousands of undocumented Afghans to fight on Syrian front, Iran trumpets their sacrifice with public funerals, rally planned for a Tehran square
Provincial officials report a rise in girls’ enrollment rates across eastern Nangarhar Province, despite constant attacks and threats by Islamic State and other militant groups in area
Officials in Washington and Kabul say extremist commander Qari Munib, a longtime target of US and Afghan forces, was the mastermind behind multiple suicide attacks in Afghanistan’s capital
Authenticity of pamphlets — which promise to eliminate Shi’ites from the areas — cannot be verified
Uzbek fighters in northern areas of Afghanistan reportedly are fleeing the Taliban and switching sides to join IS, a claim denied by the Taliban
Militant groups last year received at least $46 million from minerals and precious stones illegally exported from eastern Nangarhar province, according to report
Federal counterterrorism authorities ban Ansar ul-Hussain, suspected of luring recruits to battle alongside Iranian-backed fighters supporting government forces in Syria’s civil war
Human Rights Watch says schools in Afghanistan are threatened by both insurgent forces and Afghan security forces
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