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
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.
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
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A foreign youth pops an ollie on her skateboard as Afghan youths gather for The Sound Central Festival at the French Cultural Center in Kabul on May 2, 2013. The Sound Central Festival, now on its second year, is the only event of its kind that takes places in Afghanistan, where music was banned by
Paramilitary soldiers have a meeting as they prepare to leave their base to secure polling stations during the upcoming general elections in Nowshera May 9, 2013. Pakistan's military said on Thursday it will send tens of thousands of troops to polling stations and counting centres to prevent the Tal
