U.S. and Afghan airstrikes have destroyed nine Taliban drug factories and labs, killing 44 suspected traffickers in a border area of southern Helmand province.
A court in Pakistan has ordered the release from house arrest of an Islamist leader accused of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, his lawyer and a prosecutor say.
The International Criminal Court has announced that it is seeking authority to investigate possible war crimes in Afghanistan, including allegations involving the U.S. military, CIA, Afghan security forces, and Taliban militants.
The United States has launched its first counter-narcotics military offensive in partnership with local allies in Afghanistan to try to deprive the resurgent Taliban of its largest source of funding. The move follows years of criticism that international forces are not doing enough to curb the opium trade.
A leaked Afghan government document appears to show bias against ethnic Tajiks. Now the administration has come under yet another storm of controversy.
Pakistan has seen a considerable decline in number of terror fatalities in 2016, according to a recent report.
The mirrored cities of Astara, on Iran's border with Azerbaijan, have been divided since 1828 when the Russian and Persian empires signed a peace treaty to end a two-year war. The Astara River separates the current Iranian and Azerbajani cities.
Afghan officials say more than two dozen people were rescued in a raid against a Taliban prison in the southern province of Helmand.
Pakistani authorities on November 17 warned an estimated 5,000 Islamist protesters staging a sit-in near the capital, Islamabad, to disband within hours to avoid a crackdown, but protest leaders said they would not move.
Turkmen authorities have ordered public-sector workers to enroll their children in state kindergartens that were left almost empty after a fee increase.
Afghanistan’s government estimates that as many as a third of the country’s population -- an estimated 10 million citizens -- have no identity documents.
At least 11 victims have been killed in a suicide attack against a Kabul rally that was being held by supporters of Atta Mohammad Noor, the powerful governor of Afghanistan's northern Balkh Province.
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