As investigators consider the possibility of an inside job, details surrounding a deadly Taliban attack that targeted foreign partygoers at a popular Kabul guesthouse remain sketchy.
Pakistani officials say at least 43 members of a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect were killed when gunmen opened fire on their bus in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.
Officials in northern Afghanistan say the Taliban have been joined by foreign fighters from the Islamic State (IS) militant group in the ongoing fighting in Kunduz province.
At least seven people, including two ambassadors, were killed when a Pakistani military helicopter crashed on May 8.
A NATO official says Afghan security forces will defeat a Taliban insurgency near the northern city of Kunduz that has caused thousands of people to flee their homes.
Afghan security forces battled Taliban militants on the outskirts of Kunduz city on April 28 as the Taliban continued their push for territory in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz Province.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has concluded a two-day visit to Pakistan after signing accords worth some $46 billion to set up an economic corridor linking the two countries.
Dozens of people have been reported killed in a suicide attack on a crowded section of Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Amnesty International (AI) says the Afghan government has failed to protect female activists, leaving them vulnerable to threats, sexual assault, and assassination.
Officials say at least 17 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded, including a prominent parliament member, in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan.
Amnesty International says the number of death sentences issued worldwide increased sharply during 2014 as governments used capital punishment in a "flawed attempt" to fight crime, combat terrorism, and quash internal instability.
Two young Czech women kidnapped in Pakistan in 2013 have been freed and are back home.
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