India, Oct. 30 -- The Pashtun Taliban has risen like a phoenix: transformed from Mujahideen who pushed back the Soviets in 1979 to take power in Kabul in 1996 - as the creation of Pakistan (by Maj Gen ...

During an online meeting organised by the Afghan United Front, prominent political and human rights activists from the Pashtun, Baloch, Sindhi, and Kashmiri communities reaffirmed their commitment to ...

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 ...

The latest Pakistani air strikes inside Afghanistan have rekindled tensions between Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and Islamabad, who were once former allies. While Pakistan has said it was targeting ...

The eruption of tensions across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in mid-October – marked by a week of cross-border shelling and gunfire that killed dozens – was not an aberration. Pakistan’s relations ...

I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

Pakistan faces rising security and diplomatic pressures as talks with Afghanistan have collapsed amid escalating militancy, strategic mistrust and India’s renewed engagement in Kabul. Cross-border ...

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistani military as hostilities between the two countries intensify. By Mujib Mashal Mujib Mashal, who reported from the Deoband ...

Ever since the Islamic State in Khorasan Province emerged in Afghanistan in 2015, policymakers and security forces have regarded it as an “imported” group that can be defeated militarily. This ...

WASHINGTON -- Despite continuing misgivings, the Bush administration has cast its lot with the opposition Northern Alliance in Afghanistan largely because the U.S. has failed to win anti-Taliban ...