Pakistan’s security forces have ended a bomb and gun attack on a university campus in north-west Pakistan, which has left at least 21 people dead and 60 injured.
The targeted killing of top Taliban leaders has had little impact on the strength and size of the organisation, according to a CIA report leaked by Wikileaks.
More than 120 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban attack on a school in the city of Peshawar, in north-eastern Pakistan.
The Taliban removed the index fingers of 11 Afghans who voted in the presidential run-off election this weekend in north-western Afghanistan, say officials.
The Taliban has released a video of the controversial prisoner exchange, where Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was handed over to US forces after five years in captivity in Afghanistan.