First official response from the government in Kabul to President Donald Trump’s pledge to retrieve US arms from the de facto ...

ISLAMABAD - Taliban officials denounced Saturday claims that the United States could regain custody of Afghanistan's frozen ...

Pakistani troops fought separatist insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region of Balochistan, leaving 18 paramilitary security forces and 23 rebels ...

Authorities in Pakistan said Saturday that at least 18 soldiers were killed in an overnight insurgent attack in southwestern ...

Polio cases are surging in both countries. Can Pakistan and Afghanistan collaborate on eradicating the virus, even as their ...

Islamabad - A senior Taliban leader has publicly criticized his government’s policy of prohibiting female education in Afghanistan, calling it a &ld ...

Moreover, the Taliban has faced difficulties in asserting comprehensive control over its territory, especially in light of the numerous insurgent groups operating within its borders. The presence of ...

India's engagement with the Taliban-led Afghan government is redefining South Asia's political landscape. A significant meeting between India and the Taliban discussed trade through Iran's ...

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As Bush devoted more and more of his attention to the war in Iraq, the Taliban began to reconstitute itself. By 2005-06, they had returned as an increasingly formidable insurgent force. When President ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

WASHINGTON—A U.S. push to reach a prisoner-swap deal with the Taliban is in danger of collapsing over President Biden’s insistence that the trade include an American who disappeared in ...