December 16, 2014 Mariah Timms News Writer Pakistan Taliban militants swarmed a school in Peshawar, Pakistan Tuesday morning. The militants scaled the walls heavily armed to begin what became an hours-long siege.
October 27, 2014 Mariah Timms News Writer World U.S. Marines and British forces have pulled out of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province in a 20-hour secret process Monday. Soldiers packed all necessary belongings, and
In Kabul, Afghanistan, an explosion near the U.S. Consulate accompanied gunfire between militants and security forces. Marie Harf, a deputy State Department spokeswoman, said the attack occurred around
Sushmita Banerjee, also called Sushmita Bandhopadhya, was an Indian author who wrote about her experience fleeing the Taliban. On Thursday, police said she was shot dead by militants
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl shot in the head last year while returning home from school, received a letter allegedly from a Taliban official explaining that she was
President Hamid Karzai will not persist in arranging peace talks with the Taliban without the United States stopping their negotiations with the group. The president was angered by
Afghan rebels attacked a U.S base yesterday, destroying a NATO helicopter and also killing 3 Afghan intelligence employees. Other NATO members were injured but not killed. The attacks
In a remote southern Afghanistan village, shortly after 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, an American soldier walked off his base and went on a shooting spree, killing at
A Hawaii-based Marine, Lance Cpl. Jacob Jacoby, 21, will serve 30 days in jail for hazing one of his fellow Marines while in Afghanistan. Jacoby pleaded guilty to
