Taliban News

Quietly, talks have gone behind the scenes aimed at providing an opportunity for the Taliban to open an office in Doha, Qatar to conduct talks aimed at peace in Afghanistan. That office opened today and the Taliban signaled a willingness to negotiate.

The U.S. government is to hold direct talks with the Taliban in the next week. The peace negotiations are set to be held at the Taliban's political office in Qatar.

Taliban fighters sent a clear message to villagers about cooperating with the Afghan government when they beheaded two local boys – ages 10 and 16, officials say.

Washington - A review of classified CIA documents listing 114 drone strikes that killed about 613 people over a 14 month period beginning in September 2010, reveals that the CIA did not know the identity of the people targeted in 1 of every 4 cases.

Security officials in Pakistan say a Taliban commander has been killed in a U.S. drone attack in the lawless Waziristan region.

Kabul - After a relatively calm start this year, which saw few NATO and US casualties, the Taliban have started their spring offensive, targeting NATO and Afghan Security Forces. The past week has been particularly bloody with a car bomb attack in Kabul.

Kabul - A suicide car bomb has killed 15, including six Americans, four of which were civilian contractors, along with two US soldiers. The attack occurred at 8 am local time, when the streets of Kabul are busy with morning commuters.

After spending 131 days as a captive of the Taliban in Afghanistan, French photographer Pierre Borghi, 29, managed to escape on April 7. Now back in France Borghi says the "Taliban's Slim-Fast diet was my saviour."

At least five American soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle struck a powerful roadside bomb, in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.

A video entitled "Little Commandos" which shows children as young as five training with heavy firearms at a terrorist training camp in a remote tribal area of Pakistan has surfaced online.