A yearlong string of targeted assassinations in western Pakistan’s North Waziristan region has prompted mass protests and accusations that the country’s powerful military is failing to prevent the return of the Taliban militants.
A report by the United Nations says U.S. and Afghan government forces killed more civilians than Taliban fighters and other militants for the first time during a three-month period since the UN began keeping records on civilian casualties in 2009.
At least seven people have been killed after gunmen attacked the Communications Ministry in the center of the Afghan capital , officials say.
Members of Pakistan's Shi'ite ethnic Hazara minority have held a sit-in protest in the southwestern city of Quetta for a third consecutive day, following a deadly suicide bombing that appeared to target the community.
A Taliban spokesman says the UN Security Council has at least temporarily removed sanctions on members of the militant group’s negotiating team.
Afghans are worried over the possible impact of growing tensions between Iran and the United States after Tehran reacted sharply to Washington’s designation of its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) this week.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Mahmood Qureshi said he has "reliable intelligence" that India will attack his country later this month and has informed the UN about the matter.
As NATO looks toward a possible exit from Afghanistan in the wake of peace talks, Afghans offer mixed personal views on NATO’s mission in their war-torn country.
In a rare move, scores of civilians in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar are protesting against the Taliban and Islamic State (IS) for fomenting insecurity in their mountainous homeland.
Foreign ministers from NATO's 29 member countries are scheduled to open a two-day meeting in Washington on April 3 to honor the alliance's 70th anniversary and discuss security threats, including Russia and Afghanistan.
Four people, including a provincial official, have been killed and dozens more wounded in a twin bombing claimed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
Multiple explosions have killed at least six people and wounded 23 near a Shi'ite shrine in Kabul, Afghan officials say.
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