AFGHANISTAN

Free Syrian Army rebels are targeting Bashar Assad's new Afghan recruits in northern Syria.

According to a report from the CPJ, Syria remained the deadliest country for reporters -- for the third year in a row.

U.S. taxpayer funding of the military has been $337 million a day, or almost a quarter million dollars a minute — every day since 9/11.

A U.S. cybersecurity company recently found malware infecting the devices of visitors to Afghan government sites.

The Taliban accused the UN of "enmity and political motives," after it reported a record number of civilians were killed or wounded by insurgents.

Umar Mansoor, considered to be the mastermind behind the Peshawar attacks, has warned of more attacks if anti-terrorism operations continue.

The intensified military offensives follow the attack on a school in Peshawar, where 148 people were killed by Taliban militants.

Police tracked down the suspects using a SIM card allegedly used by the Pakistani Taliban.

Chilling conversations between Taliban fighters, who killed scores of children in Pakistan this week, and their handler have emerged.

The Australian leader has ordered a transparent government review into the events that led to the siege.

A police memo called on schools to increase security and to check underneath buses and other vehicles carrying students.

The incident took place Wednesday in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the country’s northwest.

A U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan has killed four Pakistani Taliban members and seven other insurgents.

According to local officials, 47 insurgents and six Afghan National Army soldiers, were injured during the clashes.

Among the contents found inside the vehicle were a so-called suicide belt and several firearms.

A dozen land-mine clearers were among the most recent victims of the Afghan Taliban.

With most of the U.S.-led coalition forces about to exit Afghanistan, the Taliban has resurfaced to inflict major casualties.

The attack was the latest in a spate of strikes by the hardline Islamists on a broad range of targets in and around the Afghan capital.

The big data firm is on its way to blowing past last year's $9 billion valuation.

The authorization, already approved by the House, passed by a vote of 89-11 and now heads to the president's desk.

Muslim leaders in the U.S. described the report as anything but groundbreaking.