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 ...

This handout photo from Pakistan’s ISPR shows guns and other military equipment purportedly seized from TTP fighters in Pishin District, Oct. 18, 2024. The TTP emerged in 2007 from a coalition of ...

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 ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- Leaders of the ethnic Pashtun tribes that dominate central and southern Afghanistan expressed concern and frustration today that battlefield advances by ethnic rivals and ...

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 ...

Moreover, a lesser-known fact is that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and even the Haqqani Network (HQN) are fully involved in the anti-Shia warfare in Kurram which takes a heavy toll on the local ...

2001-10-19 04:00:00 PDT Peshawar, Pakistan-- In a heavily guarded, walled compound here, Haji Mohammed Zaman presided yesterday over a war council of 100 Pashtun commanders who may hold the key to the ...

Since 2021, the Taliban has encouraged madrasa schools, raising concerns about religious indoctrination and the spread of extremism in Afghanistan. The madrasa-based education system has a long and ...

The Taliban’s Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhunzada has told officials to stop using the words “acting,” “interim,” or “caretaker” in their titles. This might seem like a slight language change, but it ...

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 ...