By LYNNE O’DONNELL and KATHY GANNON Afghanistan’s Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, who led the group’s self-styled Islamic emirate in the 1990s, sheltered al-Qaida through…
By JON GAMBRELL and ELIAS MESERET Islamic State militants in Libya shot and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians, a video purportedly from the extremists showed Sunday. The attack widens…
By RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan security services have arrested five men in connection with the massacre at a Pakistan military school last month that killed 150 people, most of them children,…
By REBECCA SANTANA and MUNIR AHMED As they buried their children Wednesday, the families spoke of their dreams. One boy had just gotten high marks on his midterm and hoped…
By LYNNE O’DONNELL Facing an intensified Taliban insurgency, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani plans to fire senior civilian and military leaders in the country’s most volatile provinces to reinvigorate the battle…
By RAHIM FAIEZ FILE – In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 file photo, Afghan men, who their fingers have been cut off by Taliban fighters as a punishment for voting,…
