(Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, who had a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head, survived years in Afghanistan's rugged mountains but his last months were spent in an upscale Kabul ...

A Taliban fighter hands me his phone, pointing to a video of his friend driving a truck. "We all signed up to be suicide bombers," the 22-year-old said. "Unfortunately our names were not picked." The ...

The Taliban faced the first armed challenge from former Afghan soldiers and villagers in the mountains north of Kabul. By Matthew Rosenberg The Taliban faced the first armed challenge to their rule as ...