MI6 agents held talks with Taliban: report
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British intelligence agents held secret talks with Taliban leaders on several occasions this year, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Wednesday.
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LONDON -- The government said yesterday it was investigating reports that members of a London-based radical Islamic group have been in contact with militants holding a British hostage in Iraq to urge his release.
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A team of Russian investigators met British police in London to discuss the investigation into the murder of former secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Metropolitan Police said.
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A senior al-Qaida operative captured in Britain this month had traveled in March to a militant hideout near the Pakistan-Afghan border and met with other terror suspects, officials said Monday.
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Accusations from Mumbai to Kabul to London finger Pakistan's spy agency for backing terror and the Taliban.
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Mirwais Yasini, director general of  Afghanistan's counter-narcotics department, tells the story of  how a British general asked him for a list of Afghan commanders  involved in the drug trade.
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Pakistani pacts with pro-Taliban  militants on the Afghan border have facilitated attacks on  foreign troops in Afghanistan and allowed the militants to  expand influence in Pakistan, a think-tank said.
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Militants holding three foreign United Nations workers in Afghanistan said that they had held negotiations with officials from the Afghan government and the United
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A British hotelier and cameraman has said Afghan authorities tried to get him to confess to involvement in the kidnapping of three UN hostages.
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A militant group threatening to kill three United Nations hostages including a Northern Irish woman Annetta Flanigan said today it was talking to the Afghan government about its demand to free Taliban prisoners.
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A contact of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is to meet UK investigators, an associate has told the BBC.
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MOSCOW, May 31 -- The former KGB agent charged by British prosecutors with poisoning another former agent in London last November held a news conference Thursday to finger MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, as a more likely suspect in the killing.
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Militants holding three U.N. workers  hostage in Afghanistan said they expected to hold talks via  intermediaries with U.N. and government negotiators on Sunday.
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Militants holding hostage three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan said they negotiated yesterday with Afghan government and UN officials in southern Afghanistan but that the meeting ended without results.
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UK counter-terrorism officials believe plan to kidnap and behead British soldier was backed by al-Qaida
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A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television.
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American intelligence officials who were deeply opposed to the secret transfer of terror suspects to interrogation centres across Europe cooperated with an investigation into the CIA's undisclosed network of jails, it was claimed today.