A Taliban commander responsible for the 2014 attack on a Pakistani school in which more than 130 children died has been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, United States and Pakistani officials said. – New York Times
Maj. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser on Thursday assumed command of the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, which develops Afghan security forces. – Stars and Stipes
Afghanistan has no plans to revive a peace process aimed at bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table after a four-nation effort earlier this year produced no results, Afghan officials said Thursday. – Associated Press
The former head of Afghanistan's main intelligence agency released documents on Thursday which he said showed that Pakistani intelligence services helped leaders of the Taliban and the feared Haqqani network in 2014 and 2015. - Reuters
After inflicting heavy losses on weakened Afghan security forces a year ago, the Taliban under new leadership have been surprisingly slow to ramp up attacks at the midpoint of the traditional fighting season, senior American military officers said Sunday. – Associated Press
Qandeel Baloch, a Pakistani social media sensation, was strangled by her brother in central Pakistan, police officials said Saturday, in what appears to have been a so-called honor killing. – New York Times
Police arrested the brother of slain Pakistani internet star Qandeel Baloch and said Sunday they plan to charge him with murder, in one of the most high-profile examples of so-called honor killings in the conservative country in recent years. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)