According to recent UN estimates, Taliban forces now hold more territory in Afghanistan than at any time since the 2001 US-led invasion

'US troop cut won't impact principal missions in Afghanistan'

Obama himself acknowledged the solution to the conflict, which at 15 years is the longest war in US history, would not be military alone

Obama slows Afghanistan pullout, 8,400 troops to stay

Total financial support is expected to be about $5 billion a year to 2020, with the US, the largest donor, contributing about $3 billion

NATO expected to approve support for Afghanistan to hold country together

Four people were killed in the attack outside the Prophet`s Mosque on Monday

Afghan Taliban condemn Medina bombing

Drone attacks carried out by US in border tribal regions with Afghanistan have proven extremely controversial

In bid to improve relations, US senator reassures Pakistan of support in terror fight

The brothers used social media profiles to upload videos in support of executions by Islamic State, Taliban and other extremist groups

Spain arrests 3 Pakistani brothers for propagating Islamic extremism

Three buses carrying recently graduated cadets were attacked by the two bombers as they approached Kabul from Wardak province

Taliban suicide bombers kill 27, wound 40 in attack on Afghan police

He said Pakistan faces the prospect of becoming a second 'North Korea' if it continues to destabilise Afghanistan by supporting Taliban

US should adopt policy of total isolation against Pakistan: former American diplomat

Asif Ali Zardari pointed out that the current head of the seminary is an acknowledged sympathiser and undeclared spokesperson of the Taliban

Former Pak President calls funding to private seminary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 'legitimisation of millitancy'

According to local officials, more than 100 Islamic State fighters had been killed in fighting in Nangarhar over the past three days

Islamic State militants launch new attacks in eastern Afghanistan

Nobody has claimed responsibility yet but Taliban and Baloch nationalist militants are active in the area

3 killed, 20 injured in bomb explosion in Pak's Balochistan

Under the Taliban there are public executions, girls can't attend school, and Hindus and Sikhs wear yellow patches in public

Afghanistan's dwindling Sikh, Hindu communities flee new abuses

The Taliban has named Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, a conservative cleric in his 50s, as the outfit's new leader

India slams UN for not slapping sanctions on new Afghan Taliban leader

It called the drone strike that killed the Afghan Taliban chief on May 21 a blatant violation of its sovereignty

Pakistan raises US drone strike issue at UN Security Council

The insurgents say that they were looking for Afghan officials aboard these vehicles

Taliban abducts 25 passengers from buses in Afghanistan

The move ensures continuity in a time when the country's security is being undermined by Taliban attacks

Afghan parliament approves President's choices for defence and intelligence chiefs ahead of NATO summit

Suicide attack and so far unclaimed motorcycle bomb devastate country as insurgency persists despite Taliban leader's recent death

Twin blasts rock Afghanistan Monday morning: At least 22 dead, 26 injured

Obama had planned to cut the number of US forces in Afghanistan, but NATO defence ministers have signalled they have other ideas

NATO approves holding onto Afghan bases to keep with Taliban threat

The al-Qaeda leader is following Osama Bin Laden's approach to support the Taliban to regain ground in the global jihadist movement

Al-Qaeda leader pledges allegiance to new Afghan Taliban leader

Suspected Taliban insurgents stopped two cars and shot dead all occupants in the eastern province of Ghazni

12 killed, 50 injured in Afghan highway attacks

Photographer David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, an Afghan journalist working as a translator, were killed in a Taliban ambush shortly after joining Afghan troops in Helmand province, one of the most volatile areas in the country.

Embed quickly turned deadly for NPR team in Afghanistan

Global Witness, a non-profit organization that investigates links between natural resources, corruption and conflict, said that the Taliban receives as much as 50 per cent of the country's mining revenue

Money from Afghanistan's 'conflict jewels' fuels war: activists

The Taliban haven't commented on the killings so far, but the spokesman of the governor of the Kunduz province has ascertained the same.

Taliban kill 16 bus passengers in northern Afghanistan

After a break of 20 years,?Afghanistan's first?cementfactory is once more clanking noisily in the countryside near Kabul as crushed-up limestone rocks rattle along a battered conveyor belt to the newly restored kiln. In an area desperately short of industry and jobs, workers hope the relaunch of the plant built by Czech engineers in 1957 and shut by the Taliban in 1995.

Hopes and fears for jobs as Afghan cement factory reopens

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