Tag: Taliban

In this Tuesday, June 30, 2015 file photo, an Afghan woman cries out at the site of a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

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Taliban suicide bomber kills dozens, one U.S. soldier, in Kabul

Nicole Duran · August 8, 2015 10:39 pm

In this Tuesday, June 30, 2015 file photo, Afghan security personnel investigate site of a suicide attack on a NATO military convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

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Former Russian soldier fighting with Taliban could get life

Nicole Duran · August 8, 2015 8:32 pm

Tom Joscelyn on Death of Mullah Omar

Tom Joscelyn on Death of Mullah Omar

Daniel Halper · July 31, 2015 1:33 pm

Mullah Omar is seen in a wanted poster. An Afghan official says his government is examining claims that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar is dead. (FBI via AP, File)

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Reports: Taliban leader Mullah Omar dead

Kelly Cohen · July 29, 2015 12:34 pm

Hafiz Saeed, center, head of religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaves after addressing a rally against caricatures published in French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

U.S. drone kills former Taliban, current ISIS leader

Kelly Cohen · July 11, 2015 2:48 pm

Afghan Government Negotiating With the Taliban

Benjamin Parker · July 7, 2015 4:55 pm

Fire and smokes rise at the site of a suicide attack during clashes with Taliban fighters in front of the Parliament, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 22, 2015. The Taliban launched a complex attack on the Afghan parliament Monday, with a suicide car bomber striking at the entrance and gunmen battling police as lawmakers were meeting inside to confirm the appointment of a defense minister, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

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Taliban attacks Afghanistan parliament

Kelly Cohen · June 22, 2015 11:13 am

Captain Jason Amerine, 5th Special Forces Group, adresses the audience during a September 11th Commemorative Ceremony at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, southern Germany, on Tuesday Dec.11, 2001. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

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Green Beret faced retaliation after talking to Congress about Bergdahl swap

Susan Crabtree · June 11, 2015 6:15 pm

Iraqi anti-terrorism forces patrol in central Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, April 18, 2015. After weeks of intense clashes, the city finally fell to the Islamic State. (AP Photo)

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There’s no power in airpower

Connor Ryan · June 9, 2015 9:00 am

Joint-Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai speaks as she gives a press conference with Kailash Satyarthi in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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Malala shooting suspects ‘cleared’ after appeal

Kelly Cohen · June 5, 2015 2:20 pm

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. A one-year travel ban is expiring for five senior Taliban leaders held in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay until they were released last year in exchange for Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for nearly five years after he walked away from his Army post in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

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Qatar extends travel ban for ‘Taliban 5’

Kelly Cohen · June 1, 2015 12:27 am

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal speaks during a forum called "Ask What You Can Do For America's Veterans" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Ex-Afghanistan general: Taliban five ‘presumably’ will return to fight

Kelly Cohen · May 31, 2015 3:54 pm