A court in northwestern Pakistan has granted bail to two lawmakers incarcerated for months for an alleged attack on an army check post near the Afghan border.
The Taliban's chief negotiator has said the "doors are open" to resuming talks with the United States, hours after two attacks claimed by the militants killed at least 48 people in Afghanistan.
Days after the collapse of peace talks between the Taliban and the United States, a Taliban delegation has held talks with senior Iranian officials in Tehran.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has condemned two Taliban attacks that killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in Afghanistan, 11 days before the country is set to hold a presidential election the militant group has vowed to disrupt.
Iranian soccer fans and players paid tribute to a woman who died after challenging Iran's ban on female spectators.
For five years, former election rivals Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah have shared power. Their national unity government, however, was anything but united.
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani says the Afghan government will only consider making a "legitimate" peace with the Taliban after a national election in September, despite political uncertainty following the recent collapse of U.S.-Taliban peace talks.
President Donald Trump says he can now confirm that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the deceased Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, has been killed by a military operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
A team of Taliban negotiators from the militant group's Qatar office is in Moscow for talks with Russian officials, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that peace talks with U.S. officials have collapsed.
Lawmakers and officials have joined relatives in denouncing a controversial former Sikh lawmaker in Pakistan for seeking asylum in neighboring India after he accused the Muslim-majority country of mistreating its non-Muslim minorities.
Pakistan’s top opposition political party is apparently torn over whether to pursue an agreement with the government and the country’s powerful military or participate in a planned protest aimed at toppling Prime Minister Imran Khan next month.
The son of revered Afghan resistance fighter Ahmad Shah Masud says he wants to make his late father's goal of creating a moderate Afghan state a reality.
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