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the past few months, Pakistan's Pakistan's army has lost control of the Swat Valley to the Taliban. It has now launched an operation to win the valley back, but victory will difficult: The Taliban is highly organized, and uses hit-and-run guerrilla tactics.

Nearly a year after President Bush declared the Taliban had been ousted from power, Afghanistan has seen its bloodiest year yet since the American occupation. NPR's Philip Reeves, in Kabul, discusses the Taliban's recent resurgence.

The U.S. places sanctions on 13 Venezuelans involved in an election Sunday, that government opponents there say are rigged. The vote could give Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sweeping new powers.

Afghan and Pakistani officials are working to reach remote villages hit by Monday's 7.5-magnitude earthquake. The quake was centered 130 miles underground, which seismologists say significantly lessened its impact.

Pakistan has a democratically elected government, but the power of the army is growing and so is that of the man who runs it.

Investigators in Europe have revealed evidence that hundreds of soccer games were fixed by gambling syndicates. The scandal even includes national teams competing for places in soccer's biggest tournament: the World Cup.

Authorities are responding with draconian measures following the massacre of more than 130 students in Pakistan. Officials are focusing on Afghan refugees, even though the killers were Pakistani.

It has been a month since an attack in a school in Peshawar killed at least 150 people, mostly school children. On Friday, the country remembered the victims with vigils and demonstrations.

A U.K. judge ruled against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, finding that the paper used phone hacking to gather information unlawfully on the Duke of Sussex.

The smart toy sector is worth close to $17 billion. But some parent and consumer support groups say these tech-driven toys are not safe for play.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with analyst Philip Elmer-DeWitt about a patent dispute that has Apple taking its latest smartwatches off the shelves, as well as how it affects consumers.

Following the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania's president after controversial testimony on Captiol Hill last week, critics continue to attack the presidents of Harvard and MIT.

Revenge attacks are alarming those hoping for a swift transition to peace in Libya. Some villages where loyalists to overthrown dictator Moammar Gadhafi used to live are now abandoned, and locals hope they stay away. As well, militias still have their weapons, and regional rivalries are at play.

The nation's for-profit colleges and universities received more than $1 billion in benefits from the Post-Sept. 11 GI Bill in the last year alone. But some say the for-profit schools aren't policed well enough — which creates an opening for abuses — and their dropout rates are too high.

Political leaders and commentators in Israel are criticizing the eldest son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who posted a meme with anti-Semitic images to social media.

Starting in early December, about 19,000 school districts will have the chance to order free rapid COVID tests from the federal stockpile for their students, staff and others in the community.

It's a rich week for fiction, with new novels from Ann Patchett and Jennifer Weiner, and a debut by Chad Harbach that marries a literary sensibility with a love of baseball — plus Jorie Graham's new poetry collection. In nonfiction, Erik Larson is back with the story of an American ambassador in Germany in 1933.

Country music star Toby Keith, who dominated the charts in the 1990s and 2000s with a string of hits, has died at 62. The singer had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

The U.S. has conducted a series of retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria. Our correspondent in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has the latest.

Joshua Schulte was sentenced in what the U.S. government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos.

Can ruins become the material for rebuilding? NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Palestinian architect Yara Sharif about the future reconstruction of Gaza.

The HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand is based on a collection of stories about residents in a small town in Maine. It's about family, friends and the tenuous relationships that make up life.

Meta is now limiting the amount of political content it recommends to Instagram and Threads users. Here's why it made the change — and how to opt out of it.

ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the deadly assault on a Moscow concert hall, and US officials are warning the group has also set its sights on western targets.

Call it the Caitlin Clark effect: The average sales price for a ticket to the women's college basketball semifinal was nearly double that of the men's event, the ticketing company Logitix reported.