The Pakistani army claims to have destroyed six Taliban tanks during this period. Pakistan claims that some Taliban soldiers were killed in the firing and several others fled the scene. The Taliban, ...

The week has been indicative of how this conflict has played out. Neither side is holding back militarily – air strikes from ...

Taliban security personnel stand guard near the Ghulam Khan border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Afghanistan's Khost province on Oct. 20, a day after a ceasefire was agreed in Doha, ...

Army Pfc. Raymond Purtee watches the barren hills around him as he provides security from the gun turret of a Humvee during a patrol halt in Bagram, Afghanistan, on Oct. 27, 2006. Credit: DoD photo by ...