Reporters without Borders says 50 people were killed this year in connection with their journalistic work, with Afghanistan and Pakistan being among the most dangerous countries for media professionals.
Afghan police say two explosions in the capital Kabul have killed at least one person and wounded more than a dozen others.
The Afghan Attorney General's Office and the National Directorate of Security announced in a joint statement on December 28 that three senators were caught during an operation in the northern province of Balkh.
The next round of negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government will be held in Qatar from next month, a top official said on December 27, despite President Ashraf Ghani's recent calls for them to be moved home.
Seven members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps have been killed in an attack by militants in Balochistan Province, the military says.
Four Pakistani soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed on December 27 near the country's border with China.
At least two Afghan police officers were killed in a spate of bomb attacks in the capital, Kabul, on December 26.
The Afghan government has expressed "great concern" over video footage released in which Taliban leaders are apparently meeting their members in Pakistan.
Prominent Afghan women’s rights activist Freshta Kohistani has been assassinated in a village in the Kapisa Province northeast of Kabul.
A provincial court in Pakistan has ordered the man charged in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl freed, his lawyer said.
Pakistani officials and witnesses say at least 10 people have been killed and 30 injured in an explosion in a cold storage factory in the port city of Karachi.
The United Nations' mission in Afghanistan is alarmed over the "deeply disturbing" numbers of targeted killings in the war-torn country after the head of an Afghan independent election-monitoring group was slain in Kabul.
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