Afghan govt in direct contact with Haqqani network

To step up pace of reconciliation talks, the Afghanistan government has opened direct contacts with the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani faction of Taliban, which is believed to have close ties to......

Seven staffers killed in Afghan attack: CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E Panetta on Thursday confirmed that seven of its officers died while six others were wounded in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, the deadliest single......

Taliban blasts CIA's secret base, 8 killed

A suicide bomber targeted an American base in eastern Afghanistan killing eight civilians, most of them employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, in the deadliest single attack on a US......