Fighters from Isis and the Taliban are said to have been involved in the attack, although the latter group denies it was involved in slaughter of women, children and elderly men

The Taliban and Islamic State fighters have regularly clashed since the latter gained a foothold in eastern Afghanistan in 2015, as the two vie for supremacy in the war- torn...

Taliban and IS fighters killed around 50 men, women and children in Mirzawalang on Saturday after overrunning a government-backed militia in a 48-hour battle.

KABUL, Afghanistan _ As unemployment worsens in strife-torn Afghanistan, the Islamic State has arrived to help the jobless with a lucrative new profession: terrorist.

Usman, a teenage bomber currently on death row in Shikarpur, was recruited in the Afghan province of Nangarhar, where US and Afghan forces have been fighting the Islamic State.

With Adam Rawnsley What’s on tap for the National Security Council this week? After a series of high-level firings last week during which National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster pushed out several officials favored by Trump advisor Stephen Bannon, things are pretty tense at the white House. Two of the now-former…