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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...
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...
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...