Hamid Karzai returns to Kabul. Taliban’s bid for a respectable face?
While the Biden administration grapples with the disastrous fallout at home and among US allies from the messy US military
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Taliban moves into Afghanistan presidential palace. Elected president flees
Taliban soldiers were photographed around desks at the presidential palace in Kabul on Monday, Aug.16, hours after President Ashraf Ghani
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Russia and Iran Secretly Connive to Promote Taliban
Russia and Iran appear to be replicating their strategic alliance in Syria for backing Bashar Assad with another shared scheme
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Afghan Population and Land Are Decimated by Taliban-ISIS Turf Wars
Taliban and the Islamic State are making bloody inroads on putatively post-war Afghanistan, claiming a rising death toll among members
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Taliban Leader Assassinated for Secret Ties with Tehran
President Barack Obama authorized the multiple drone attack which killed the Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, on Saturday, May
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Pakistan’s “Discovery” of Mullah Omar’s Death Puts Peace Talks on Ice
Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) must have known the exact date of the death of Taliban’s Mullah Omar – just
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Taliban counters French-led Western unity demo with pledge of allegiance to ISIS chief Al Baghdadi
High Taliban officers in Pakistan and Afghanistan made a vow of allegiance Sunday, Jan. 12 to the Islamic State’s leader
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Saudi Prince Bandar Opens Anti-Obama Fronts in Egypt, Afghanistan and Iran
The aspersions cast by US media on Saudi Intelligence Director Prince Bandar Bin Sultan’s competence were designed to put him
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Rebel Fragmentation Speeded by ‘Talibanization’ of Aleppo and Idlib
The Pakistani Taliban have built themselves a Syrian base. Their arrival in the war-torn country is stoking the fragmentation of
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Panetta Brings Forward the US-NATO Exit, Pakistan Lets Al Qaeda Run for Office
Speaking on Thursday Feb. 2, ahead of a NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicted
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