Kathy Gannon

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National Security

Taliban says it suspends talks on held US soldier

Kathy Gannon · February 23, 2014 11:51 am

This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Washington has held indirect talks with the Taliban over the possible transfer of five senior Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan nearly five years ago, a senior Taliban official told The Associated Press. A U.S. official said the possibility of an exchange is under discussion but would not comment on whether any talks have yet occurred. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

Taliban say they discussed prison swap with US

Kathy Gannon · February 19, 2014 10:17 pm

Afghan Taliban shot dead in Pakistan’s northwest

Kathy Gannon · February 17, 2014 6:36 pm

Pakistani polio strain threatens global campaign

Kathy Gannon · February 17, 2014 7:29 am

Blasphemy law used against minorities in Pakistan

Kathy Gannon · January 29, 2014 7:11 am

French soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, carry the body of a victim killed from a suicide car bomber who attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 16, 2013. A Muslim militant group, Hizb-e-Islami, claimed responsibility for the early morning attack, killing many in the explosion and wounding tens, police and hospital officials said. The powerful explosion rattled buildings on the other side of Kabul and sent a pillar of white smoke into the sky in the city's east. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)

Afghanistan: Bomb kills 15, including 6 Americans

Kay Johnson, Kathy Gannon · May 16, 2013 4:00 am

NATO: 3 troops killed in Afghanistan attack

Kathy Gannon · May 13, 2013 7:06 pm

Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a ceremony at Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Karzai said he is ready to let the U.S. have nine bases in the country after the 2014 combat troop pullout, but wants Washington's "security and economic guarantees" first. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Karzai says US can have 9 Afghan bases after 2014

Kathy Gannon · May 9, 2013 4:00 am

Picture taken March 28, 2013 shows an Afghan female prisoner outside her cell at Badam Bagh, Afghanistan's central women's prison, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Twohundred-and-two women living in the six- year- old jail, the majority of the women are serving sentences of up to seven years for leaving their husbands, refusing to accept a marriage arranged by their parents, or choosing to leave their parent's home with a man of their choice, all so-called "moral" crimes(. AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Afghan women in Kabul prison over ‘moral’ crimes

Kathy Gannon · April 9, 2013 4:00 am

In this Wednesday, March 20, 2013 photo, Afghan villager Ghulam Rasool sits in the yard of his house where he and his family found refuge in the village of Khalis Family Village, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Rasool padlocked his front door, handed over the keys and his three cows to a neighbor and in the middle of the night left his mountain home to escape relentless air strikes. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Afghan villagers flee their homes, blame US drones

Kathy Gannon · March 28, 2013 4:00 am

Pakistani clerics to boycott peace conference

Kathy Gannon · February 18, 2013 5:57 pm

A Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 photo, shows a Taliban fighter from central Afghanistan who is known to the Associated Press from the time of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, but cannot be identified, is seen during an interview with the Associated Press wrapping a cloth around his face, in Kabul, Afghanistan. As the clock ticks toward 2014 and the final withdrawal of NATO and U.S. troops, peace talks with the Taliban are floundering even as the Taliban are showing some hopeful signs, attending international conferences and issuing a statement from their reclusive one-eyed leader with a surprise offer to share power in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Taliban peace talks flounder as troops draw down

Kathy Gannon · February 3, 2013 5:00 am