U.S. President Donald Trump says Washington has identified 52 “Iranian sites” that will be hit “very fast and very hard” should Tehran strike any American target, while the early stirrings of protests began surfacing on U.S. streets against the strike that killed a top Iranian commander.
Afghanistan’s four-decade-long conflict has been defined by the intervention of great powers and the meddling of neighbors who have ostensibly pursued their interests by arming or fighting various Afghan factions or facilitating their infighting.
Qasem Soleimani, the powerful commander of Iran's Quds Force, has been killed in a U.S. air strike in Baghdad in a dramatic escalation of hostilities between the United States and Iran that could lead to retaliatory action by Tehran.
The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz's stance to unconditionally support proposed legislation aimed at granting army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa a new term in office has attracted increasing criticism from journalists, party activists, and civil society leaders.
Forty years ago, Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan and toppled an allied government. The bloody invasion would set Afghanistan on a path for decades of conflict.
Ahsan Iqbal, a prominent member of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, was arrested on December 23 in Rawalpindi hours after publicly criticizing Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The United States is allowing Pakistan to rejoin a military training program following a two-year suspension -- representing one element of U.S. military assistance frozen by President Donald Trump after accusing Islamabad of not doing enough to stop terrorism.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appears set to win a second term after Afghan election officials announced he had won 50.6 percent of the preliminary vote count.
The Pakistani government says it will seek to remove the judge who demanded, while sentencing former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death, that his body be publicly hanged for three days if he should die before being apprehended.
A functioning and prospering economy would be key to the success and sustainability of the imminent peace deal that the United States and Taliban are close to signing.
U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has met in Kabul with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to discuss "efforts to finalize a deal with the Taliban" militants fighting the central government and U.S. and NATO troops, officials said.
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