The Afghan Air Force on August 5 resumed air strikes against Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan as militants made additional gains in the country's north.
The Taliban has warned of more attacks targeting top Afghan government officials after an attack targeting the acting defense minister in Kabul and as insurgents continue their fight for control of cities across the country.
Police in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh say the Taliban killed a young woman for wearing tight clothing and not being accompanied by a male relative.
Pakistan's opposition has decried the nomination of a candidate with links to a militant Pakistani Islamist group to the legislative assembly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir with the support of the ruling Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party.
Civilians fled their homes in southern Afghanistan on August 4 as government troops prepared a counterattack to retake swaths of the city of Lashkar Gah from the Taliban, as international concerns intensify over civilian casualties in several major urban centers.
Fighting raged on the streets of a major Afghan provincial capital on August 3 as the United Nations warned of the "catastrophic" impact on civilians caught up in the intensifying conflict between the Taliban and Afghan army.
The United Nations has warned of a "catastrophic" impact and urged Afghanistan's warring sides to better protect civilians caught up in the intensifying conflict, the focus of which has shifted in recent weeks from mostly rural areas to major battles for control of three large cities.
There were long lines at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Karachi in Pakistan's Sindh Province as residents rushed to get their shots on August 1 and 2. Demand for COVID-19 vaccines soared after provincial officials imposed strict new measures to push residents to get the shots.
The United States and Britain have said the Taliban may have committed “war crimes” and accused the militant group of “massacring” Afghan civilians when it captured the southern town of Spin Boldak in July.
The United States has announced an expansion of its push to evacuate at-risk Afghan citizens from Afghanistan amid a surge in Taliban violence as a U.S. military pullout enters its final weeks.
Militants in Pakistan targeted police officers providing security for polio vaccination teams in two separate attacks on August 1, killing one and wounding another officer in the volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, authorities said.
Residents of Afghanistan's second-largest city expressed fear of further Taliban advances on August 1 after at least three rockets struck and disabled Kandahar airport overnight.
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