A leading rights group says that Pakistan's authorities have intensified pressure on Afghan refugees to go back to ...

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Taliban authorities have freed US citizen George Glezmann after he spent more than two years in detention in Afghanistan, US ...

Boehler, who has been handling hostage affairs for the White House, was accompanied by Washington’s former envoy to Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad. The delegation is the first from Washington since US ...

With an aim to further deepen its strategic partnership with Pakistan, China has delivered the second advanced Hangor-class ...

Refusing to see insurgencies’ roots, using ‘terrorism’ labels, and scapegoating neighbours are not winning strategies.

Several rounds of negotiations between the Pakistan-Afghanistan jirga took place to resolve the Torkham border closure and ...

Taliban authorities on Thursday freed American citizen George Glezmann after more than two years of detention, in a deal ...

Months later, she said she tried to give private lessons for girls. But Taliban fighters raided the gym where they were practicing and arrested them all. In detention, the girls were humiliated ...

Crouched in the wreckage of his armoured vehicle, torn apart by a roadside bomb which had killed his three comrades, he watched as a Taliban fighter aimed a rocket-propelled grenade directly at him.

Taliban authorities, and envoys for Afghanistan -- generally those based in neighbouring countries or within the region. In January, two Americans detained in Afghanistan -- Ryan Corbett and William ...