A California man who was captured fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2001 has been released from prison, U.S. media report.
Newly unclassified intelligence suggests IS-Khorasan, as the group is known in Afghanistan, is growing both in numbers and ambition, now boasting as many as 5,000 fighters.
Lawmakers and locals in a southern Afghan province say the illegal mining of gold and other precious minerals has dramatically increased in Taliban-controlled regions close to the border with Pakistan.
The disappearance and brutal murder of a young Sikh shopkeeper in the Afghan capital, Kabul, have shocked the country’s tiny Hindu and Sikh minority.
The Islamic State (IS) group says it has established a "province" in Pakistan, days after the terrorist organization used the name "Hind Province" for an attack it claimed in the India-ruled portion of the disputed Kashmir region.
Clashes between the Islamic State militants (IS) and the Taliban have forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in two provinces in eastern Afghanistan.
The Hazara minority in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta live in two enclaves surrounded by army checkpoints to protect them from attacks by sectarian militants. A local security source estimates 500 Hazaras have been killed in Quetta in the last five years.
The United Nations' Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed “grave concern” about the impact on civilians from an "increase in violence around the country" during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Pakistan's prime minister has condemned a deadly attack by insurgents a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar.
In the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, activists and relatives of victims of forced disappearances are participating in a nearly two-week sit-in protest to demand that authorities release or find scores of missing Shi’a.
The death toll from a Taliban attack on the offices of an international aid group in Kabul has been raised to at least nine people, Afghan officials say.
Taliban militants have attacked the offices of an international aid group in central Kabul, killing at least five people and wounding 24, officials say.
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