The founder of Afghanistan's much-feared Haqqani network, a former U.S. ally turned fierce enemy, has died after years of ill health, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday. Jalaluddin Haqqani was 72.

Sirajuddin Haqqani (Image by URANUS TV KUNDUZ, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.) We assess that is unlikely that the Haqqani Network will be able to attack the US homeland and its interests as well ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. committee that oversees sanctions against the Taliban imposed global sanctions Monday on the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, a fierce militant group considered a major ...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the leader of the United Arab Emirates, met with Sirajuddin Haqqani, an official in the Taliban government wanted by the United States on an up-to $10 million ...

Now that the Taliban has announced an interim government, we wanted to dig in on a familiar name - Haqqani. Sirajuddin Haqqani has been named acting interior minister. He is a leader of the Haqqani ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) – Some questions and answers about the Pakistan-based Haqqani network and the potential impact of the Obama administration’s decision to designate it a foreign terrorist organization: Q ...

In Vietnam, the United States grasped defeat from the jaws of victory. As documented in Mark Woodruff’s “Unheralded Victory: The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, 1961-1973,” the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The minister for refugees in Afghanistan's Taliban government was killed in an explosion Wednesday at the ministry's headquarters ...

(For more stories on Afghanistan & Pakistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) June 17 (Reuters) - The United States has presented evidence to Pakistan about the growing threat and reach of a militant faction, the ...

Afghanistan hasn’t been in the headlines much lately. It’s slipped into the background of American consciousness — just another unfinished story in a long list of slow-burning global flashpoints.

The government accused the Islamic State of being behind the attack, which struck at the heart of the Taliban’s power structure after years of essentially unchallenged dominance. By Lynsey Chutel, ...

In this week’s issue, Jeffrey Dressler explains that the Obama State Department has yet to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, in spite of bipartisan pressure from ...