#taliban

#taliban

Pakistan's military claims to have killed 33 fighters who attempted to infiltrate Balochistan from Afghanistan, labeling them as Indian-sponsored separatists without offering evidence.

Enrolment in madrassas has surged in Afghanistan, with one school expanding from 35 to 160 students in five years as families seek alternative education.

Peter and Barbie Reynolds, both in their 70s, were arrested in early February and taken from their home in central Bamiyan to Kabul, the Afghan capital.

To be a father of daughters in the Taliban's Afghanistan has become a daily nightmare for Amir, who feels compelled to inflict a system of gender apartheid on his family.

In summer 2008, federal prosecutors say, some of those fighters attacked a U.S. military convoy, killing three American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter.