A UN report claims a 31-year-old Tajik national leads a Central Asian unit of an Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan and actively recruits Tajik fighters for the terrorist group. Tajik officials say the man has been on their radar “for some time.”
Pakistan says it has cut the last remaining public transport link with India -- a bus line linking Lahore with New Delhi -- as its anger mounts over a dispute with its nuclear rival over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Pakistan has ruled out a military response to India's move to strip the disputed region of Kashmir of its special status despite rising tensions between the two countries.
At least 14 people have been killed and 145 wounded after a Taliban suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside a police station in Kabul, according to the Afghan Public Health Ministry.
The Indian-administered portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir remains under an indefinite security lockdown after lawmakers on August 6 stripped statehood from the Himalayan region and the government revoked its special autonomy.
Afghan troops besieged by the Taliban for more than a week in a remote district of central Afghanistan are desperate for reinforcements and help.
Traders in a restive Afghan province are reluctant to abandon using the Pakistani currency even after local authorities have threatened them with possible arrests.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group may be based mostly in Iraq, but the covert network is poised for an eventual resurgence, a group of UN experts told the international body’s Security Conference this week.
While the current peace process in Afghanistan could bring the longest conflict in U.S. history to a close, it does not necessarily signal an end to the country's four-decade war.
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