KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, sparking a five-hour battle with security forces. Full story
Khalid Hosseini sat down with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell to discuss his new book, “And the Mountains Echoed,” which explores love, family relationships spanning generations of families from pre-Taliban Afghanistan to the West.
KABUL (Reuters) - About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago. Full story
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Dozens of Taliban insurgents launched coordinated attacks on Afghan checkpoints in the south on Tuesday, killing at least six Afghan policemen, officials said, adding that a clash was going on. Full story
Pakistan's presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army. Full story
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's all-powerful military overthrew Nawaz Sharif 14 years ago and hustled him off into exile in handcuffs. Now he's back as prime minister-elect, with the army watching his every move, especially steps planned to ease tension with arch-rival India. Full story
With the IRS Tea Party probes calling to mind the unfair targeting of the NAACP in 2004, former Chairman Julian Bond joins Thomas Roberts to say that the NAACP's targeting and the Tea Party's are not parallel circumstances. He went on to call the Tea Party "the Taliban wing of American politics."
One brave, pioneering woman is defying the Taliban to run for parliament in what is considered one of the most dangerous places on earth. ITV’s John Irvine reports from the Pakistan Tribal areas ahead of national elections this weekend.
Pakistani’s have gone to the polls under the shadow of the Taliban. NBC’s Waj Khan reports from Lahore, Pakistan.
David Rodhe, a Foreign Affairs columnist at Reuters, speaks with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin about Israeli airstrikes in Syria and U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan.
The Taliban has issued a warning that it will increase attacks on foreign military forces in Afghanistan. NBC's Ron Mott reports.
Afghan policemen take position at the site of a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters in Kabul on May 24, 2013. Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government
An Afghan man visits a wounded relative in the hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, April 26, 2013 after a bus collided with the wreckage of a truck that was attacked by Taliban insurgents in Maiwand district, on the highway between Kandahar and Helmand, Afghanistan,Friday, April 26, 2013. Sco
epa03684057 Afghan boys cheer as Afghan and foreign musicians perform during 'The Sound Central Festival' at the French Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, 01 May 2013. The concert is part of a cross-cultural program to increase awareness of music and arts with locals in Afghanistan. During the T
