Pakistan is ordering the ActionAid charity and 17 other international aid agencies to shut down operations and leave the country in Islamabad's latest move against foreign-funded human rights groups, ActionAid said.
Officials say at least 13 people are dead and dozens injured in a suspected suicide attack at a campaign rally in eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials and lawmakers have warned of catastrophic consequences if Washington agrees to privatize its war effort in Afghanistan by contracting security operations to private firms.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has killed four militants on the Saravan border crossing close to Pakistan in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province.
The UN mission in Afghanistan has expressed “strong concern” over the rising numbers of civilian casualties caused by aerial operations, as two separate air strikes over the weekend appear to have killed a total of 21 civilians.
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has voiced concern over the "rising" number of civilian casualties as a result of air strikes by the international coalition or the Afghan Air Force.
Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a firefight after they raided militant hideouts in the mountains of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, the military says.
Calls are growing louder among members of the Afghan capital's Hazara community to take their security into their own hands.
Members of Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority are bracing for potential violence as they prepare to commemorate Ashura, the holiest celebration in their religious calendar.
Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency says its officers have arrested at least 26 suspected members of the extremist group Islamic State (IS), accusing them of plotting attacks on members of the Shi'ite minority.
A series of deadly militant attacks have struck sport facilities and athletes in Afghanistan, where sports have flourished in recent years.
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