List of Taliban articles
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A tattered Afghan flag is flowen at a Forward Operating Base (FOB) west of Kandahar on August 26, 2011. There are around 140,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan helping Afghan forces to fight a ten-year Taliban-led insurgency. Limited coalition combat troop withdrawals have started ahead of a 2014 deadline for them all to leave. AFP PHOTO / Johannes EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) In the Fall of Kunduz, Echoes of Iraq
Taliban’s seizure of Afghan city could make it impossible for Obama to pull troops out of Afghanistan.
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TO GO WITH AFGHANISTAN-US-ARMY-CONFLICT-FOCUS BY GUILLAUME DECAMME In this photograph taken on August 12, 2015, a US army soldier stands guard at an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in the Khogyani district in the eastern province of Nangarhar. From his watchtower in insurgency-wracked eastern Afghanistan, US army Specialist Josh Whitten doesn't have much to say about his Afghan colleagues. "They don't come up here anymore, because they used to mess around with our stuff. "Welcome to Forward Operating Base Connelly, where US troops are providing training and tactical advice to the 201st Afghan army corps as they take on the Taliban on the battlefield. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) Islamic State Could Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
U.S. commanders point to Islamic State threat as justification for keeping force in Afghanistan
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Visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (2nd R) alights from his aircraft at the Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi on November 14, 2014. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani arrived for his first visit to neighbouring Pakistan, seeking to improve ties crucial to his hopes of reviving Taliban peace talks as US troops end their 13-year war. AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images) Reconciliation Foolosophy II
The worrisome push for political accommodation with the Taliban continues.
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Photo by Jason Dixson Photography. www.jasondixson.com Malala: Nations Should Spend Money on ‘Books, Not Bombs’
In an event co-hosted by Foreign Policy in Washington, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai called on governments to redirect their military spending to schools.
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Pakistan members of Jamiat Nazriati party shout slogans in a rally to pay tribute to Afghanistan's deceased Taliban chief Mullah Omar, in Quetta on August 2, 2015. New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour called for unity in the movement August 1, in his first audio message since becoming head of the group that faces deepening splits following the death of longtime chief Mullah Omar. AFP PHOTO / Banaras KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) Afghan Taliban: Yes, We Did Cover Up Mullah Omar’s Death
Amid leadership struggle, Taliban leader's supporters back his experience.
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Afghan police and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb in Kabul on August 22, 2015. A suicide car bomb apparently targeting a foreign forces convoy killed three people in downtown Kabul on August 22, officials said, underlining the precarious security situation in the Afghan capital following a recent wave of fatal bombings. AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) Afghanistan, Choose Your Enemies Wisely
The Taliban’s new leadership may be the last decent opportunity for a political solution to the conflict. Without one, the Islamic State will make Afghanistan the next Iraq or Syria.
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GettyImages-681898crop Al Qaeda Boss Zawahiri Pledges Allegiance to New Taliban Leader
The announcement comes on the heels of news of Mullah Omar's death in 2013.
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TO GO WITH Afghanistan-unrest-militias,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra This photograph taken on May 23, 2015, shows Afghan militia forces stand with their weapons in Kunduz. The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) Death Divides the Taliban
The death of Mullah Omar has caused rifts in succession, the peace process, and internal loyalties that signal dangerous times ahead for Afghanistan.
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GettyImages-482497480-cropped[1] Singing Omar’s Praises, Staying Silent on Mansour
Al Qaeda affiliates' silence is a sign that the fight to succeed Mullah Omar as Taliban leader is not yet over.
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN: TV grabs taken secretly by BBC Newsnight shows Taliban's one-eyed spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar (C) during a rally of his troops in Kandahar before their victorious assault on Kabul in 1996. AFP PHOTO MANDATORY CREDIT BBC NEWS/NEWSNIGHT (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images) Mullah Omar, We Hardly Knew Ye
No, seriously: We have no idea what’s going on in jihadi-world.
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GettyImages-51957675omarcrop China’s Man in the Taliban
Why the death of Mullah Omar is bad news for Beijing.
