ISLAMABAD, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped ...

A cross-border attack by Afghan forces was followed by Pakistani air strikes. Qatar had brokered a ceasefire in October.

ISLAMABAD -- The Taliban are sending Afghan workers to fill jobs in the Gulf nation of Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan, and say talks are underway to send labor to Saudi Arabia, the United ...

The escalation follows Pakistan's launch of Operation Ghazab lil-Haq after alleged cross-border attacks, even as the Afghan ...

The Pakistani attacks on early Friday came after Afghanistan launched an attack on Pakistani border forces. Both sides ...

The Afghan Taliban has claimed air and drone strikes on several Pakistani military bases. Pakistan has dismissed the attacks near Islamabad and Rawalpindi as rumors. Independent confirmation of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China has called for greater counterterrorism cooperation with Afghanistan, including joint patrols along the narrow strip of land ...

The Taliban’s new criminal code in Afghanistan has legalised slavery and granted mullahs legal immunity. Here is more about the ‘Criminal Procedure Code for Courts’ ...

Last week, as the Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid triumphantly declared 2025 “a year of diplomatic success,” the claim was received with predictable laud from the movement’s echo chambers. But ...

The reinstatement of slavery in Afghanistan removes all doubt that the Taliban intend to subject Afghanistan to a hideously regressive form of government. On January 4, 2026, the Taliban quietly ...

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its ...