List of Taliban articles
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GettyImages-84937788crop Pakistani Spies May Have Funded 2009 Suicide Bombing Targeting CIA Outpost
The ISI allegedly funneled $200,000 to the Haqqani Network to strike Forward Operating Base Chapman.
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zia4crop4Dark All Hail, the Brother of the Lion of Panjshir!
Ahmad Zia Massoud is fed up with Kabul and threatening to fill the power vacuum inside Afghanistan’s crumbling government.
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Supporters of freed prisoner of war US Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, including representatives of the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK and March Forward, hold up a poster of Bergdahl during a rally in front of the White House in Washington, DC, June 10, 2014, to welcome Bergdahl home after 5-years of being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Serial Recap: The Meaning of Bowe Bergdahl
What does Bergdahl mean for those who served, and the nation in general?
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GettyImages-513275590 Watchdog Chief: Corruption Is An ‘Existential’ Threat to U.S. Efforts in Afghanistan
The watchdog for the Afghan war warns graft there could undermine the entire U.S. effort.
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Pakistani relatives mourn over the body of a victim during a funeral following an overnight suicide bombing in Lahore on March 28, 2016. The toll from a suicide blast in Pakistan's Lahore rose to 69, officials said on March 28, as authorities hunted for the "savage inhumans" behind the attack in a park packed with Christian families celebrating Easter Sunday. More than 200 people were injured, many of them children, when explosives packed with ball bearings ripped through crowds near a children's play area in the park in Lahore, leaving dozens dead or bloodied. / AFP / ARIF ALI (Photo credit should read ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images) Lahore Blast Caps Deadly Week, From Asia to Europe
At least 144 were killed in terror attacks last week that showed the vast reach of extremists' targets.
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usaf Obama’s Afghan Dilemma: To Bomb or Not to Bomb
As Kabul’s fragile army struggles to hold the line, will Washington’s warplanes come to the rescue?
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VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 6: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been digitally altered) Director Tobias Lindholm is photographed for Self Assignment on September 6, 2015 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) An FP Conversation: What Qualifies as War Crimes in the 21st Century?
Foreign Policy spoke with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tobias Lindholm about war crimes in the 21st century, and who is responsible for them.
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A coalition force member stands on top of a hill watching a snow-covered mountain range in Kabul province, Afghanistan, March 1, 2013. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Freire) In Afghanistan, how about trying this?: Don’t just do something, stand there
Some of his national security advisors are encouraging President Obama to keep American military personnel in Afghanistan past his self-imposed deadline of having all but about 5,500 U.S. troops out by the end of the year.
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bergdahl Serial Recap, Episode 6: Bergdahl Reaches His Breaking Point
Bowe Bergdahl thought the Army was failing him and other soldiers, but one incident pushed him over the edge
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EXETER, NH - FEBRUARY 04: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Exeter Town Hall on February 4, 2016 in Exeter, New Hampshire. Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates are stumping for votes throughout New Hampshire leading up to the Presidential Primary on February 9th. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ‘The Rise of the American Taliban’
Pakistan’s elite on the Trump phenomenon.
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PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN - JANUARY 20: (EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death.) Body of a militant is seen after Pakistani Taliban gunmen stormed Bacha Khan University's campus in the Charsadda town of Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on January 20, 2016. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Dozens Dead After Terrorist Rampage at Pakistani University
It remains unclear who is responsible for a deadly terrorist attack that left dozens dead at a Pakistani university Wednesday.
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An Afghan security official holds his weapon ready as he walks next to the site of a suicide attack on the Afghan parliament building in Kabul on June 22, 2015. Taliban militants attacked the Afghan parliament on June 22, with gunfire and explosions rocking the building, sending lawmakers running for cover in chaotic scenes relayed live on television.The insurgents tried to storm the complex after triggering a car bomb but were repelled and have taken position in a partially-constructed building nearby, officials said about the ongoing attack. All MPs were safely evacuated after the attack, which came as the Afghan president's nominee for the crucial post of defence minister was to be introduced in parliament. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) Mapped: The Taliban Surged in 2015, but ISIS Is Moving In on Its Turf
The U.S. drawdown has paved the way for the Taliban to brush aside Afghanistan’s security forces and take control of growing swaths of the country.
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Pakistani Rangers carry the coffin of a colleague killed during an assault by militants on Karachi airport during funeral ceremonies in Karachi on June 9, 2014. Twenty-eight people were killed as Pakistan's military fought an all-night battle with Taliban gunmen who besieged Karachi airport armed with rocket launchers and suicide vests, leaving a nascent peace process in tatters. Ten militants were among the dead, officials said, as Pakistan's biggest city witnessed a return of the kind of spectacular offensive waged before by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during an insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives since 2007. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) Pakistani Taliban Boast of a Deadly and Productive 2015
The Pakistani Taliban bragged Monday that they have killed more than 680 people this year.
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GettyImages-495813638_960 The Islamic State of Afghanistan
With the caliphate growing across Central Asia, it's time to make a deal with the Taliban -- the enemy we know.
