The government and Taliban negotiating teams have shared initial topics concerning their Sunday’s meeting to formulate a joint agenda for peace talks, a well-placed source said.

Three notorious Al-Qaeda members have been arrested in southwestern Nimroz province, the local National Directorate of Security (NDS) office said in a statement on Sunday.

More than five dozen Australian soldiers may stand down as a mark of protest against the disbanding of their squadron over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

A district police chief was among 11 policemen wounded in a car bomb attack in southern Kandahar province on Monday. The car bomb was detonated close to the police headquarters in Daman district this morning, said a spokesman for the provincial police.

At least 33 people were wounded in a car bomb attack in southern Kandahar province on Monday, officials said. Bahir Ahmadi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the car bomb targeted the police headquarters in Daman district this morning.

In late February and early March, India and Pakistan engaged in a series of aerial skirmishes after a suicide bombing killed 40 Indian security personnel in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The crisis marked the worst escalation between the two nuclear-armed countries in nearly two decades. In an interview with WPR, Avinash Paliwal, a lecturer and deputy director of the […]

For all the fears it raised about a direct confrontation between South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors, the tit-for-tat that erupted between India and Pakistan in mid-February was relatively restrained compared to the political battle that unfolded around it in New Delhi.

VARANASI, India—On a recent morning, Hindu pilgrims in white robes scurried through the dusty stone alleyways of this city on the Ganges River. They moved back-and-forth between various temples and the ghats, or piers, on the riverbank, and occasionally one or more of them would wade into the sacred waters, which are said to cleanse the soul. As the sunlight […]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) foiled an attempted car blast during an operation in Zherai district of Kandahar province, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Tuesday.

Twenty-two students and professors were killed when gunmen stormed the campus in Afghanistan’s capital last month. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. However, security officials say they have now arrested the alleged mastermind of the attack – and accused him of having links to the Taliban. BBC Minute’s Olivia Le Poidevin has spoken to three students, caught […]