Unidentified gunmen have critically injured a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist in an attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district.
Afghan officials say hundreds of foreign combatants are fighting alongside Taliban militants in a strategic northern province, a move that if proven true would violate the terms of the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement.
On the streets in Kabul, the coup is still blamed for all of Afghanistan’s woes.
The U.S. President Donald Trump and Qatari leader Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani have agreed on the importance of the Taliban reducing violence in Afghanistan.
Clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban militants killed dozens nationwide even as the United States tries to broker peace talks between the warring sides.
Nearly five years ago, Rahman Gul, a poor, middle-aged Afghan villager in the eastern province of Nangarhar, became a symbol of the atrocities the ultra-radical Islamic State militants (IS) had begun inflicting on Afghans.
Many in tiny Sikh and Hindu community of approximately 700 people in Afghanistan say they cannot feel safe in a country where Islamist militant groups like Islamic State (IS) have put a target on their backs.
A group of 47 unaccompanied children evacuated from refugee camps in Greece arrived in Germany on April 18, German officials said.
A court in Pakistan has ordered the government to restore Internet to parts of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where its lack was depriving thousands of university students from accessing online classes and educational materials during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Austin Miller, has met with representatives of the Taliban’s political office in Doha to discuss the reduction of violence, officials said.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging the Afghan government to bring war crimes charges against the captured leader of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province, an affiliate of the extremist group Islamic State (IS).
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