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Peace talks to begin between Taliban, Afghan government 19 years after 9/11 triggered war

Peace talks to begin between Taliban, Afghan government 19 years after...

The US-backed negotiations come six months later than planned owing to bitter disagreements over a controversial...

12 Sept 2020 10:47 AM IST

The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no good Taliban or bad Taliban , and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's real problem on Taliban is its Pak...

India's first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

24 Aug 2021 4:19 AM IST

The US National Security Agencys eavesdropping mission includes radio broadcasting, both from various organisations and individuals, the Internet, telephone calls, and other intercepted forms of communication. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Beware world! Big Brother is listening and watching

The US and some other countries have an array of space satellites orbiting at preselected trajectories to watch over...

9 Aug 2022 12:08 AM IST

Pakistans former President Gen. Pervez Musharrafs popularity dropped and the attack by the security forces on Lal Masjid conservative seminary in Islamabad in July 2007 further increased his unpopularity. (File Photo: AP)

From commando to Prez: The Musharraf era led to turmoil & ill-will in...

Musharraf was on the run from legal and political retaliation from within Pakistan

6 Feb 2023 12:44 AM IST

Cover photo of The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the CIAs Most Controversial Covert Program. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | The Guantanamo trauma and Abu Zubaydah's unbearable...

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are two of the world's best known investigative writers with several acclaimed books...

4 Jun 2023 12:31 AM IST

Former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf. (Photo: AP/File)

Watch: Video shows Musharraf seeking 'covert US support' to regain...

Musharraf, 75, was Pakistan's president between 2001 and 2008, before resigning to avoid impeachment.

29 Dec 2018 2:32 PM IST

In a five-minute video entitled Tel Aviv is Also a Land of Muslims, the Egyptian doctor who took charge of the global terror group after its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 referred to the Palestinian Authority as the sellers of Palestine while urging followers to take up arms. (Photo: AFP)

Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri calls for jihad on eve of US embassy move to...

Top US officials have meanwhile insisted they could still push forward the troubled peace process despite outrage across...

14 May 2018 2:24 PM IST

made. The NSA has installations in several US states and from them routinely intercepts electronic data from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America and Asia.

'Gentlemen don't read other people's mail!'

The NSA and the CIA together comprise the greatest intelligence-gathering effort in the world.

7 Aug 2018 12:47 AM IST

Hamza, 29, has assumed a senior position within Al-Qaida and was aiming to avenge the death of his father, who was shot dead during a covert US military raid in Pakistans Abbottabad seven years ago. (Photo: AP)

Osama bin Laden's son Hamza marries 9/11 hijacker's daughter: report

Hamza is the son of one of Osama's three surviving wives, Khairiah Sabar, who was living with her husband in Abbottabad,...

6 Aug 2018 4:28 PM IST

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals in a covert raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011. (Photo: AFP)

In a first, Osama Bin Laden's mother says son 'brainwashed in his 20s'

Alia Ghanem recalls that when she learned about her son's business, she was 'extremely upset'.

4 Aug 2018 4:39 PM IST

Jalaluddin was an Afghan mujahideen commander fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s with the help of the US and Pakistan. (Photo: AFP)

Afghan Taliban announces death of Haqqani network founder

Jalaluddin gained notoriety for his organisation and bravery, garnering attention from CIA and visit from US congressman...

4 Sept 2018 9:30 AM IST

Pakistans former military ruler Pervez Musharraf (Photo: AFP)

Dawood may be 'here, somewhere, but why should we assist India?':...

Pak has consistently denied about Dawood residing there, despite India maintaining that that he indeed lives in a...

31 Aug 2017 12:41 PM IST