Former Taliban commander sentenced to 42 years in prison for killings of US soldiers and journalists’ kidnappings

A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three ...
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Taliban allows men to beat their wives as long as they don’t break bones or leave open wounds

(CNN) — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a draconian decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and allows men to beat their wives so long as they don’t break bones or leave visible, ...
CNN

Pakistan’s defense minister says latest clashes with Taliban mean ‘open war.’ What’s happening?

Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with Islamabad’s defense minister saying his country’s patience had “run out” and ...
KSL

Taliban leader Mullah Mansour killed in airstrike, Taliban source says

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At least 9 dead after Taliban attack on training school in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (CNN) — Taliban militants stormed a training school Friday in northern Pakistan, leaving at least nine people dead and injuring nearly 40, officials said. The attackers used a ...