Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only American POW of the Afghan War, was freed after five years of captivity in a prisoner swap with the Taliban, the Obama Administration reported this afternoon. In exchange for his release, five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, were transferred to Qatar.

Two men riding a bicycle shot and killed Mohammad Amanullah, head of the Independent Election Commission in Kunduz, Afghanistan on Wednesday. Following the incident, Zabiullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban, sent out this tweet:

A Taliban rep has sent an open letter to Malala, the Pakistani teen activist who was targeted last year by Taliban gunmen in a failed assassination attempt, asking her to stop her "smearing campaign" against the militants who tried to kill her.

World class mountaineer Gabriel Filippi decided last Saturday to drop his attempt to scale Pakistan's Nanga Parbat so he could return to the capital city of Islamabad to spend more time with his family.

After years of fighting, it seems the West has finally found some common ground with the Taliban: Both find the Petraeus sex scandal highly amusing.

The Taliban is focusing all of its efforts on kidnapping or killing Prince Harry, a spokesman for the militant group said today.

The Obama Administration has released roughly 200 pages of documents found in Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound as part of the ongoing Murderversary Spectacular. Here are the highlights:

Eight days ago, the Wall Street Journal published another column promising a "stable Afghanistan" from the Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon. It might as well have been assembled by playing Powerball. O'Hanlon cranks the hopper, opens the little cage and out comes another bromide: "Closer"! "Accomplishing"!…

America freaked out yesterday when a new terrorist meme surfaced, a mock movie poster promising "Al Qaeda: Coming Soon Again in New York." Much of the concern over this Photoshop of Doom was sparked over its strangely slick 3D appearance. But it turns out 3D graphic design is super trendy in the world of Islamic…

A video emerges showing US Marines pissing on three Taliban corpses in Afghanistan. The outrage machine grinds into motion. The media bestirs itself from its slumber. Americans momentarily pay attention to the war in Afghanistan again. Politicians rush to add their names to the chorus of identical statements. All…

The Marine Corps is looking into "the origins of a video on the Internet," shown here, in which four Marines appear to be laughing and peeing on Taliban corpses. (Graphic footage warning.)

The Taliban launched a brazen 20-hour assault on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul yesterday, and for some reason instead of picking up a gun and fighting the spokesmen for both sides just slagged each other off on Twitter all day.

No one is safe from phone hacking these days, not even the mouthpiece of one-eyed, bearded bogeyman Mullah Omar. The following message was sent out early today from the phone of a Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid:

Taliban suicide bombers rushed into a "Western-style" hotel in Kabul Tuesday night, and at least one has blown himself up at the entrance. Details are hazy, but ABC reports that at least "four explosions have been heard and gunfire continues." Police estimate that there are up to six bombers and gunmen. The…

Republican Congressman and former friend of the Taliban Dana Rohrabacher has an idea for curbing global warming: Gut the world's rainforests of old and decaying trees, because greenhouse gasses are "generated by nature itself." The California Representative thinks this whole idea of manmade global warming is bullshit,…

What do Courtney Love and the Taliban have in common, besides being harbingers of the West's decline? They both have twitter accounts!