A former Taliban commander pleaded guilty Friday to providing weapons and other support for attacks that killed American soldiers and for key roles in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a reporter ...

Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah is facing terrorism-related charges for actions in Afghanistan from about 2007 to 2009 that resulted in the deaths of three U.S. Army soldiers. "Najibullah ...

A former Taliban commander has pleaded guilty to taking hostages, including an American journalist, and the deaths of U.S. soldiers, the Justice Department said Friday. Haji Najibullah, 49 ...

The campaign to crush Taliban fighters in the southern Afghanistan city of Marjah moved swiftly in its fourth day with the capture of resistance leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Pakistan. Judy ...

A Taliban commander bragged in a victory speech from inside the presidential palace in Kabul that he spent eight years in Guantanamo Bay, the notorious lockup in Cuba used by the US to house some ...

A U.S. airstrike near the Pakistan border killed the Taliban's southern military commander — an associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Omar and the highest-ranking militant killed ...

A Taliban commander for 15 years, he had killed many in his native Afghanistan, but today, the 38-year-old lives in hiding with his wife and five children, working part time as a real-estate agent.

A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar was killed in an airstrike this week close to the border with Pakistan, the U.S ...