Paktika

Fighting leaves dozens of Taliban insurgents dead in eastern Afghanistan

The clashes came a day after the Taliban said they had killed 28 Afghan paramilitary policemen in Uruzgan in southern Afghanistan.

The CIA's terror regimes in Afghanistan

CIA-funded paramilitaries are wreaking havoc in Afghanistan.

Taliban kidnap six Afghan journalists

"We are trying to negotiate their release with the Taliban," says Abdullah Hasrat, a spokesman for Paktia's governor after Taliban kidnapped six Afghan journalists.

Taliban checkpoint attack kills four in Afghanistan's Herat

Meanwhile, a director of a local TV station was kidnapped in the eastern Nangarhar province and a suspected US drone strike in the Paktika province killed a local government employee believed to have links to militants.

Bowe Bergdahl avoids prison time, gets dishonorable discharge

US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was charged with desertion and endangering his fellow troops when he abandoned his unit in Afghanistan in 2009. He was then held by the Taliban for nearly five years.

US drone strike kills "an Al Qaeda leader" in Afghanistan

The Pentagon says Qari Yasin was a senior figure from Balochistan who had ties to the Tehrik-e-Taliban group and had plotted multiple attacks.