Officials in eastern Afghanistan say hundreds of fighters loyal to the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) militant group have surrendered over the past week,
New details of a purported Islamic State attack on a Tajik border post have emerged as authorities continue to probe the assault that killed at least 17 people.
At least 12 people were killed and 20 others wounded when a car bomb detonated during the morning rush hour in the Afghan capital, officials said.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his government is ready to release three key Taliban prisoners including Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajjuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, in exchange for two professors of the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain in the country "for several more years."
A group of militants is reported to have attacked a Tajik border post overnight. Tajik authorities say they were from the so-called Islamic State and crossed into Tajikistan from Afghanistan.
The latest wave of endorsements for new Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has U.S. intelligence officials taking notice.
An overnight shoot-out at an outpost on the Tajik-Uzbek border has ended with one Tajik border guard and one police officer killed, Tajik authorities say.
After years of fighting against the Taliban and military operations by Afghan and U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s mountainous east, an affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has proved resilient.
CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary forces are summarily executing civilians during botched nighttime raids and are responsible for the disappearances of suspects, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on October 31.
At least 65 people were killed when a passenger train caught fire in central Pakistan, a provincial minister said on October 31.
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