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Exclusive-Audit fails to win U.S. backing for release of Afghan central bank funds - U.S. officials
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA U.S.-funded audit of Afghanistan's Taliban-run central bank has failed to win Washington's backing...
Doctor? Engineer? As dreams fade, Afghan girls turn to madrasas
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn a chilly classroom in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban...
Pakistani Taliban overpower guards, seize police center
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSeveral Pakistani Taliban detainees overpowered their guards at a counter-terrorism center in...
Iran exchanges heavy gunfire with Taliban on Afghan border, escalating tensions over water rights
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic's border with...
25 militants killed in Pakistan army raid on detention centre; one hostage dies
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPakistan's security forces killed 25 of 35 Islamist militants holed up in a counter-terrorism centre...
Suspected militants heading for Pakistani govt target blow themselves up
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistani militants thought to have been on the verge of carrying out a suicide...
Blinken facing contempt of Congress threat over cable tied to Afghanistan withdrawal
ABC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is threatening to hold Secretary of...
Rebel, Kingmaker, and Accused War Criminal: The Last Confessions of an Afghan Warlord
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAbdul Rashid Dostum has dodged assassin's bullets and survived poisoning. Now from exile, he plots...
House committee will hold Blinken in contempt over Afghan withdrawal info
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold Blinken in contempt of Congress over a cable...
Review found Afghan central bank lacks independence from Taliban - US watchdog
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA U.S.-funded assessment of Afghanistan's central bank found that it lacks independence from the...