ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for Sunday night’s deadly assault on the country’s largest international airport in Karachi that left at least 28 people dead, including 10 “terrorists” and more than a dozen security personnel. Authorities say that just before midnight a group of around 10 heavily armed militants, some wearing military uniforms, […]
ISLAMABAD — The Afghan Taliban has released a video showing its fighters handing over captured American soldier Bowe Bergdahl to the U.S. military in an eastern province that borders Pakistan Saturday. The Taliban video shows U.S. Army Sgt. Bergdahl, waiting in a white pick-up truck surrounded by heavily armed Taliban fighters. Most of them have their […]
While in Poland on Tuesday, Pres. Barack Obama, defended the prisoner deal that freed US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at a news conference, saying, “we don’t leave soldiers behind… Whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he is held in captivity. Period. Full stop.” “That’s what every […]
The Taliban launched its annual “spring offensive” Monday with a series of attacks across Afghanistan.In the eastern city of Jalalabad, militants entered a provincial justice ministry building, triggering a shootout with police. Two policemen and at least four civilians were killed before the three attackers, including a suicide bomber, were killed in the provincial […]