A senior official in Afghanistan says at least 50 people die every day fighting terrorist forces in his country, underscoring the intensification in the 17-year-old Afghan conflict.
Pakistani political discussions are reverberating with talk of hanging 5,000 people to cleanse the country of opposition.
A senior U.S. general says the Islamic State (IS) terror group remains a “very worrisome” presence in Afghanistan, but it is unlikely to mount an attack on the U.S. homeland because it is under strong military pressure.
A new study says Afghanistan has replaced Syria as the "least peaceful country in the world.”
Senior Pakistani military and civilian officials have publicly disagreed over how to respond to a BBC investigation that uncovered alleged abuses by the country’s security forces, militants, and collusion between the two in the country’s western Pashtun regions.
Violent bomb blasts continued to shake Afghanistan as Taliban militants have rejected calls for a holiday truce.
A second Pakistani lawmaker accused of being behind an alleged attack on a military post has been arrested, a provincial spokesman said.
A suicide bombing at the entrance to a military training center in Kabul has killed at least six people and wounded six, police and security officials say.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says militant attacks on schools in Afghanistan increased almost threefold last year, making it increasingly difficult to ensure education for children in many parts of the country.
Three people were killed and at least 10 others in clashes between Pakistani security forces and protesters in the country’s northwestern tribal region, the military and eyewitnesses say.
Afghan captives held by the Taliban have been subjected to "ill-treatment and actions that may amount to torture," according to the United Nations' Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
A California man who was captured fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2001 has been released from prison, U.S. media report.
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