The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

The challenges Pakistan faces today are often described in binary terms — a threat here, a conflict there — but the reality is far more chaotic and intricate, much like the scientific conundrum known ...

(Wakil KOHSAR/AFP/AFP) Taliban authorities on Monday imposed a nationwide shutdown of communications, weeks after they began severing fibre optic connections to prevent "vice". Connectivity was ...

Travel and communication restrictions for the five GITMO Taliban detainees released in exchange for Beau Bergdahl are set to expire on Monday, June 1. The original release of these detainees, and the ...

The TTP’s growing attacks in Pakistan from sanctuaries in Afghanistan led to serious frictions with Kabul. Attacks by Baloch insurgents became more audacious in 2025. According to the South Asia ...

Pakistan, established in 1947 as a homeland for South Asia’s Muslims, occupies a pivotal position in regional geopolitics, navigating complex relationships with neighboring Afghanistan and global ...

A full-blown conflict between Afghanistan’s Taliban and neighboring Pakistan seemed unthinkable when the hard-line Islamist group, a longtime ally of Islamabad, seized power in 2021 as international ...

(Adds Taliban denial) By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province ...