The United Nations' envoy for Afghanistan said the country’s problems cannot be solved through military means and he urged Taliban militants to enter peace talks.
A northwestern Pakistani region dubbed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as “the most dangerous place in the world” is finally getting some positive press.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban movement is expressing interest in peace talks amid calls for its contact office in Qatar to be closed.
Amnesty International says human rights around the world are under threat because of politicians who are using "toxic, dehumanizing" rhetoric against ethnic or religious minorities in order to strengthen their political powers.
A Pakistani ski resort destroyed by the Taliban 10 years ago is coming back to life amid improved security and new investment.
Amid strong skepticism, some Afghan experts see U.S. President Donald Trump’s affability toward Russian President Vladimir Putin as an opportunity to gain Moscow’s support for Afghan stability.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reiterated support for long-awaited reforms that might see the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) merge into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In the nearly four decades of various cycles of the Afghan war, few alliances are as baffling as Iran’s not-so-secret cooperation with the Afghan Taliban.
Pakistan seems on track in 2017 for another year of just getting by. The country seems likely as in the recent past to avoid fully confronting its most challenging problems yet managing to do enough to avoid their becoming seriously worse.
In his new year message to the Afghan leadership, Pakistan’s new army chief has pledged to work for peace with the neighboring country.
Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar say strongmen and community leaders have grabbed nearly two-thirds of all government land in the region.
A senior Afghan official has rejected a preliminary peace plan backed by the Taliban insurgents that could lead to a final reconciliation deal possibly ending nearly four decades of war in Afghanistan.
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