Long-delayed peace talks between Taliban and Afghan government negotiators are set to kick off in Qatar on September 12, officials and the militant group say.
Afghanistan's main intelligence agency says it has arrested a key member of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group’s affiliate in the country who is said to be a mastermind behind the assassination of two prominent religious scholars in Kabul.
A Pakistani soldier was killed and three civilians were injured in clashes with Indian border troops in the disputed region of Kashmir, the military said on September 10.
Afghanistan's First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has escaped an apparent assassination attempt suffering only minor injuries from a roadside bomb blast in the country's capital, Kabul. The 49-year-old was in a convoy when it was hit by the September 9 blast that killed at least 10 people.
Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has escaped with only slight injuries after an apparent assassination attempt in the capital early on September 9 that killed at least six people.
Civilians in a remote area of western Pakistan have accused the country’s powerful army of mass arrests and torture after the Taliban claimed a bomb attack that killed and injured members of the army.
Taj Bibi, a mother of five in her 30s, has lost three husbands, all brothers and Afghan army soldiers, to the war in Afghanistan.
The eldest son of the Taliban's late founder has emerged from his father's shadow to become a key figure in the militant fundamentalist group.
Residents and officials in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan say the Taliban is raking in considerable revenues by taxing illegal gold mining in the remote region bordering China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan.
For relatives, the fate of their disappeared loved ones in Pakistan is a constant agony.
Afghan officials say the planned peace talks with the Taliban have hit a new impasse after some foreign governments called on Kabul not to free certain fighters in a prisoner-release deal.
The Afghan government says it has started releasing 400 Taliban militants, the final part of a prisoner swap meant to clear the way for the start of peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban.
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