Indian security forces have maintained tight restrictions across Indian-administered Kashmir during the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha, fearing protests against the revocation of the Himalayan region's special status a week ago.
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.”
The United States on August 7 called for calm and restraint as a dispute between India and Pakistan escalated over the disputed region of Kashmir.
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.
India has revoked the special status of Kashmir in a bid to fully integrate its only Muslim-majority region with the rest of the country, the most far-reaching political move on the troubled Himalayan territory in nearly seven decades.
India has deployed more troops and ordered thousands of visitors out of Indian-controlled Kashmir, while Pakistan’s leader has called on U.S. President Donald Trump to mediate the long-standing dispute over the Himalayan region.
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.
U.S. President Donald Trump has held out the possibility of restoring aid to Pakistan as Islamabad is "helping us a lot now" to find a way out of the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
The aviation minister of Pakistan says his country suffered losses of more than 8 billion rupees ($50 million) because of airspace restrictions put in place earlier this year amid violent clashes with neighboring India.
The United States, Russia, China, and Pakistan have called on the Taliban to immediately agree to a cease-fire and to direct negotiations with the Afghan government.
The United States has removed Uzbekistan from a list of countries with the worst religious tolerance for the first time in more than a decade as its new president courts Western nations.
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.
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