Afghan government officials, Taliban extremists, and U.S. officials are in the Qatari capital, Doha, for the negotiations that opened on September 12 designed to bring permanent cease-fire, ensure the rights of women and minorities, etc. (Reuters)
A Pakistani journalist has been arrested in the port city of Karachi, accused of spreading hateful content against the country's military on social media, according to police authorities and the journalist's family.
Nineteen years after the September 11 terror attacks in the United States led to a bloody conflict that ravaged Afghanistan and killed tens of thousands of people, talks designed to bring peace to the country are set to begin.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said upcoming Afghan peace talks are likely to be “contentious,” but that they are the only way forward if Afghans are to find peace after decades of conflict.
The United Nations says an estimated 6,000 residents of Chinarto, a remote district in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, cannot access medical services and face food shortages because of the road closure by the Taliban.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says if he is elected he will maintain a small troop presence in Afghanistan and Iraq to help battle terrorism in the war-ravaged countries.
A group of Democratic senators has introduced legislation to impose sanctions on any Russian individual or entity involved in a reported program to place bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Protests were held in Islamabad and other cities across Pakistan amid national outrage over the alleged gang rape of a woman in front of her children.
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.
The United States is pressing authorities in Afghanistan to bring to justice an influential former head of the South Asian country’s soccer federation who is on the run from criminal charges of sexually assaulting multiple female players.
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.
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