least 70 others during Friday Prayer, officials said, the second such attack on a Shiite place of

Taliban fighters patrol in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug.... The statue depicted Abdul Ali Mazari, a militia leader killed by the Taliban in 1996, when the Islamic militants seized power from rival warlords.... The Taliban claimed the Buddhas violated Islam's prohibition on idolatry....

“ There are different groups which form the TTP and some of them want to talk to our government for peace, ” the prime minister told an interviewer.... But we’d also do well to focus on what the TTP is, and how it’s responded to talks in the past. For starters, conflating the TTP with the Afghan Taliban has been useful for both the pro-war and anti-war brigades.... To say Pakistan should talk to the TTP since the Americans talked to the Afghan Taliban misses the obvious: Pakistan was never occ

ACTS of terrorism by Baloch insurgent groups have increased.... Since January this year, different

SUNNI and Shiite Islam are the two major denominations of the religion. Although both have much in

Shiite leader on Friday, wounding more than a dozen of people, officials said....

KABUL — As a military commander, Maulavi Mahdi never captured territory or killed Americans in battle.... Yet the Taliban considers the 33-year-old ethnic Hazara a godsend. Last year, the militants made Mahdi a shadow district governor in his birthplace.... On a recent trip to Kabul, he was housed in a large villa with a garden, which the Taliban typically reserves for its most senior leaders....

a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan....

the insurgents’ offensives. More than 3, 000 Mozambicans have been killed and 800, 000 people

election of Shiite Muslim clericand possible U.S. ally Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday, rejecting an appeal