In its recent report issued on May 31, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan said it has received 5,177 cases of alleged enforced disappearances since its inception in 2011.
Afghan special forces have freed more than 100 prisoners held by the Taliban, including women and children, in an operation in the southern province of Helmand, the military says.
An attack on Afghanistan's Interior Ministry in Kabul has been repelled with one policeman and all of the attackers being killed in the latest in a series of militant attacks in the city.
A former head of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency has been barred from leaving the country in connection with a recent memoir he co-authored with a former Indian intelligence-agency head.
Amid heightened tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, senior military and intelligence officials from the two neighbors have agreed to enhance joint efforts to fight against terrorism, the Pakistani military says.
At least 32 people have been reported killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan and attacks in the country's east, as the Taliban pushed ahead with its annual spring offensive across the country.
The Trump administration's new Afghanistan strategy has made little progress against the Taliban insurgency since August, and the country remains a "dangerous and volatile" place after 17 years of war, a government watchdog report says.
The Taliban has warned Kabul residents to stay away from "military centers" as they vowed more attacks in the Afghan capital.
Psychoanalyst and terrorism expert Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin says an often overlooked factor in the behavior of suicide attackers is how early child-rearing practices in so-called "shame-honor cultures" stunts the development of empathy.
At least eight people were killed and dozens more wounded by multiple explosions at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Jalalabad late on May 18, local Afghan officials said.
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.
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