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It wasn’t so long ago that the word “Taliban” in Russian news broadcasts was synonymous with terror, extremism, and dark mutterings about security threats spreading like mold toward the borders of the former Soviet Union. For over two decades, Moscow’s official line was as frozen as Siberian...

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YORK, England – A British soldier killed by a Taliban bomb in Afghanistan left $161,500 in his will -- so his friends could go on vacation to Las Vegas, The Sun reported Monday Read Full Story: Link Removed

More than 40 people were killed in Pakistan last week in a US drone attack near the Afghan border. The use of unmanned drones have always been controversial, but ex-CIA director Michael Hayden says they are winning the war. Ten years on from 9/11, al-Qaeda appears to be on the back foot. One...

Who are the Taliban? Recent years have seen the re-emergence of the hardline Islamic Taliban movement as a fighting force in Afghanistan and a major threat to its government. They are also threatening to destabilise Pakistan, where they control areas in the north-west and are blamed for a wave...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban' Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says. Taliban field commanders interviewed for the report suggested...