A fuel tanker exploded on the Afghan-Iranian border on February 13, causing a massive fire and a chain reaction that destroyed more than 500 trucks carrying natural gas and fuel.
At least five policemen have been killed and 12 wounded in two attacks in Afghanistan, officials said on February 13.
Pakistan's military said on February 12 that a group of militants had attacked a security post in the northwest of the country, killing four troops in the ensuing shootout along with four insurgents.
The author of best-sellers chronicling the cycles of war in Afghanistan and their impact on neighboring countries, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid talks to Gandhara about whether a fresh U.S. approach could steady and eventually resolve the crises in the two countries.
A Taliban delegation made an unusual appearance in Ashgabat on February 6 after visits to Iran and Russia. Little information is available about the trip -- and there's near silence from the Turkmen government – so it's unclear what issues were discussed during the mystery visit.
Afghan officials say a district police chief and his bodyguards were killed after multiple bomb blasts rocked Kabul early on February 10.
Afghanistan and India have signed an agreement to build a $236 million dam that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says will provide residents of the capital, Kabul, with clean water.
Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz told reporters that the gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying staff from the Rural Rehabilitation and Development Ministry, killing four of them.
A delegation of the Afghan Taliban has visited Turkmenistan for talks with the Turkmen Foreign Ministry focusing in part on security issues surrounding the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural-gas pipeline project.
Thousands joined a rally in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif on February 7 to demand the authorities do more to free a kidnapped child. Abdul-Rauf, a 9-year-old ethnic Turkmen boy, has been held captive for more than three months by kidnappers who are demanding a ransom.
Afghan police say at least three people, including members of the Afghan Hindu community, have been killed and four others wounded in three separate blasts in the capital, Kabul.
Pakistan has nearly fenced off the entire length of its disputed 2,670-kilometer border with Afghanistan, purportedly to stop militants from crossing the porous frontier. But observers say the greatest impact will be felt by Pashtun communities straddling the border.
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