Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan says the Taliban are likely to participate in direct peace talks with Kabul in the near future.
The Pakistani film A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness has won the Academy Award for best short documentary.
Lawmakers in the country’s largest province supported a move to give unprecedented protection to female victims of violence in an attempt to curb gender-related abuse in Pakistan, ranked the world’s third most dangerous place for women
A senior Afghan official says Pakistan has been tasked with bringing a group of 10 influential Taliban representatives to Islamabad during the first week of March to take part in direct talks with the Afghan government.
The Afghan Taliban’s office in Qatar has told RFE/RL it continues to insist that all foreign troops in the U.S.-led coalition must leave Afghanistan before it will join direct peace talks with the government in Kabul.
President Barack Obama has unveiled plans to transfer the last remaining detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and shut down the controversial facility for good.
Members of the Afghan government and Taliban representatives are expected to meet by the first week in March in Islamabad for the first direct talks since peace process broke down last year
The Pentagon is preparing to submit a long-awaited report to Congress about closing the U.S. military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Afghan soldiers pull out of bases in Musa Qala, a strategic district of the southern province of Helmand, after months of heavy fighting with Taliban insurgents
More than 100,000 health workers across Pakistan stepped up efforts to eliminate the polio virus from a country that is one of its last bastions despite continued threats to vaccination teams
Winter had led to a lull in fighting in northern Afghanistan. But in recent weeks a renewal of hostilities has seen power lines coming from Central Asia cut and some amazing allegations from Afghan officials about militants in the north and their ability to sustain their efforts.
The Afghan government has sent a team of specialists to a northern province to repair electricity pylons blown up as fighting raged between security forces and Taliban insurgents.
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