In recent months, Afghan government forces have made notable gains in some frontline Afghan provinces by reclaiming lost territories from the Taliban insurgents.
A range of hard-line Islamist groups including the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) are attempting to recruit on Afghan university campuses to turn the seats of higher learning into sanctuaries and breeding grounds for their violent campaigns and revolutionary ideologies.
Afghanistan's Health Ministry says a Swedish aid group has reopened dozens of health centers it operates in the country.
Afghanistan’s Health Ministry says at least eight people have been killed when an explosion struck near the entrance to Kabul University.
U.S. President Donald Trump has faced criticism for saying Pakistan's arrest of the alleged mastermind of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai had come after a 10-year search, as the suspected militant had been living freely.
An Afghan regional governor said 25 members of the country's elite commando units have been killed in fighting with the Taliban.
Pakistanis are debating whether the country’s current army chief should be given a new term in office beyond November, when he is set to retire.
Afghan officials say at least nine people have been killed, including a pro-government militia commander, after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding party in the country's east.
Sufi Muhammad, a radical Pakistani cleric who waged war against foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan, has died.
Nearly two decades after a major U.S.-led military campaign toppled Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban regime for hosting Al-Qaeda, senior U.S. and NATO officials are saying that the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan are a major threat capable of inspiring attacks in the West.
At least one person has been killed and more than 100 wounded after a powerful car bomb rocked the Afghan capital, followed by a battle between gunmen and security forces, officials say.
Tarinkot, a town of some 70,000 residents, narrowly escaped being overrun by hundreds of Taliban fighters in September 2016. Still the town is under a virtual Taliban siege with the rebels controlling territories around the beleaguered town.
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