Residents, officials, and the governor of a restive western Afghan province have offered conflicting accounts of a fresh push by the Taliban to overrun the provincial capital after Kabul claimed to have defeated an offensive to overrun the city.
Pakistan's military has killed a commander of the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) along with two other militants in a raid in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the army said on May 17.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has apologized to the families of victims of an airstrike by the country’s forces that killed dozens -- mostly children -- in a restive province bordering Central Asia last month.
Afghan and NATO warplanes have bombed Taliban positions after insurgents attacked Farah city, the capital of Farah Province in western Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border, Afghan officials say.
Thousands of residents in northwestern Pakistan are staging a sit-in protest to pressure authorities into arresting those responsible for a string of recent murders.
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a coordinated attack by suicide bombers and gunmen at a government building in the city of Jalalabad.
The leader of the U.S. Central Command says the Taliban in Afghanistan “cannot win militarily” despite an uptick in attacks launched by the militants.
Afghanistan’s top security officials and lawmakers are at loggerheads over who is responsible for preventing deadly terrorist attacks in the capital that have killed and injured hundreds this year alone.
The fall of several rural districts in northern Afghanistan this month heralds a new push by the insurgents to tighten their grip on contested regions and threaten elections scheduled for this fall.
Militants are battling security forces in the Afghan capital after Kabul was rocked by a series of explosions, leaving at least six people injured.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has criticized Afghan security forces over air strikes carried out on a village in the northern province of Kunduz in April, saying 36 people -- 30 of them children -- were killed in the operation.
Afghan officials say at least 13 people have been killed and some 30 others wounded in an explosion at a mosque in eastern Khost Province that was being used as a voter registration center.
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