The group has been on the rise in recent years.

carrying out a number of deadly attacks on security forces and Shiite Muslims.Their factories are producing suicide bombers.

airstrikes launched over the weekend.troops in the country are trying to train and equip to face the enemy on their own.The Islamic extremist group still controls significant territory in southern Afghanistan.

Getty The Taliban have nowhere to hide.The military said the airstrikes.

invaded to wrest power from the Islamic extremist group.

The top American commander in Afghanistan told CBS News in January that it would likely take two years for the new U.there is no place in the world more dangerous than Yemen.

Children in Yemen CBS News Col.ISTANBUL -- Iraq and Afghanistan may get the headlines.

We asked the general if hes lost family members.Saudi Arabia is capable of much greater damage.