At least six militants were killed as fighting aircrafts pounded a Taliban hideout in Darqad district of Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province on Wednesday, provincial governor’s Spokesman Mohammad Jawad Hajari said Thursday.

Attacks carried out by Taliban and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan were twice as effective in the third quarter of 2019 than they were earlier in the year, according to a leading oversight authority on Afghanistan that reports to the United States Congress.

The US military ramped up the number of air and artillery strikes it conducted in Afghanistan during the month of September following the collapse of the peace talks with the Taliban after President Donald Trump canceled a Camp David summit with the insurgent group on September 7. US troops carried out 1,113 air and artillery strikes during the month of […]

Indian Kashmir officially became a federally ruled territory Thursday, nearly three months after New Delhi stripped its decades-old special status, but peace remains elusive in the Himalayan region that has been wracked by a violent separatist insurgency and is the flashpoint of its dispute with Pakistan.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary forces have “committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability” — including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and attacks on health-care facilities.

Attacks carried out by Taliban and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan were twice as effective in the third quarter of 2019 than they were earlier in the year, according to a leading oversight authority on Afghanistan that reports to the United States Congress.

Hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, calling for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s resignation over economic hardships.

A total of 11 militants have been killed in Gizab district of Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province as cleanup operation has been continuing in the restive area, said an army statement released here on Thursday.

During its rule from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban imposed a medieval interpretation of Islam on Afghanistan.

A Taliban key commander Mullah Yasin was among five militants who have been killed in Khan Abad district of northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, said an army spokesman Abdul Ghafar Nuristani on Sunday.