The Trump administration plans to publish a new U.S. strategy for Central Asia as China and Russia fight for influence in the energy-rich region and militants from Afghanistan threaten to destabilize it, a senior State Department official has said.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has agreed to allow a ballot recount in provinces where his supporters had stopped the process for nearly a month.
U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is on a two-day visit to Pakistan to brief the country's leaders about his latest negotiations with the Afghan Taliban.
Human Rights Watch is urging the Pakistani authorities to provide information about the whereabouts of a political activist and human rights activist who has been missing for one month.
The prospects of such a peace agreement puts the quarter-century-old Taliban movement at a crossroads.
Dozens of people attended the funeral of a local leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party who was shot dead in the northwestern Swat Valley.
Taliban militants have attacked a medical facility near the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, officials say, killing at least two Afghan civilians and wounding more than 70 other people, including five Georgian soldiers.
In Pakistan, the Treasury imposed economic sanctions on Rao Anwar for his reported role in "staging numerous fake police encounters in which individuals were killed by police."
The Washington Post has published a report based on a confidential cache of U.S. government documents showing that three White House administrations misled the public about shortcomings and failures in the 18-year Afghanistan war.
The body of 73-year-old Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor who lived and worked in eastern Afghanistan for decades before he was gunned down along with five Afghan guards and colleagues last week, has arrived in his native Japan.
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