It was -20C (-4F) in Ottawa on the night of Feb. 1, one of the most bitterly cold days in Canada’s winter of discontent. Shortly after 9 p.m., in a historic government building known as the West Block ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

The Islamic Emirate said in a statement Friday on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops ...

India entered the decade in a precarious financial situation, soon confronted by Mandal and Mandir matters, and ended the millennium in 2000 with IC-814 returning from Kandahar with all but one ...

Principle routes for new Daesh recruits to Afghanistan include travel through Turkey and Iran, U.N. sanctions monitors said ...

The Taliban, which means “students” in the Pashto language, emerged in 1994 around the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. It was one of the factions involved in a civil war for control of the country ...

Saad Mohseni, dubbed the Rupert Murdoch of Afghanistan, has significantly influenced Afghan media. Despite the Taliban's ...

"Most people thought that war would have been over in one week," Trump said. "I think he’d be very well off to end that war." Meanwhile, Putin signaled openness to negotiations with the new US ...