The young Afghan hates his new school ... having discovered too late that the school was effectively an insurgent recruiting center. Asking to be called Wahid Khan, the boy fondly recalls the ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — No students showed up at Mirwais Mena girls school in the Taliban’s spiritual ... Provincial Police Chief Mati Ullah Khan said three people have been arrested.

A suicide bomber tried to attack a meeting of tribal elders and blew himself up near an Afghan ... were wounded. Khan, reached late Sunday night, said he believed that only five school children ...