Pakistan closed a key border crossing with Afghanistan after two mortar shells landed on Pakistani territory from across the border, officials say.
Helicopter-borne U.S. forces have recovered the remains of two personnel killed when a military communications aircraft went down in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan's Ghazni Province, the Pentagon has confirmed.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistani and Afghan cities and towns to voice anger over the detention of an ethnic Pashtun rights activist in Pakistan.
Police in the Pakistani capital have arrested a top leader of a civil rights movement campaigning against alleged military abuses in the country’s restive northwestern Pashtun tribal regions.
Footage from RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan -- taken 3 1/2 hours after the plane went down in Ghazni Province on January 27 -- showed smoldering wreckage with sections of the Bombardier E-11A aircraft still intact. The U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan would not offer details other than saying t
An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27, the U.S. military and the NATO-led force in the country said, adding that there were no indications so far it had been brought down by enemy fire.
A civil rights movement campaigning against alleged military abuses in its war-ravaged homeland in northwestern Pakistan has called on supporters to protest the January 27 detention of its young leader.
Manzoor Pashteen, the civil rights leader who has criticized military operations in Pakistan’s northwestern Pashtun regions, has been arrested in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Nearly six months after India imposed a communications blackout in Indian Kashmir, internet services were partially restored on January 25, but the region’s seven million residents will still have no access to social media.
Factions within the Afghan government and Washington differ over whether they are willing to accept a reduction in violence or expect a complete cease-fire in the wake of an agreement between the United States and the Taliban.
A widely anticipated agreement between Afghanistan’s Islamist Taliban movement and the United States is expected to include safeguards to ensure that it leads to ending over four decades of war in the country.
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