Taliban forces and Pakistani troops exchanged fire for nearly five hours along the border in Paktia province on Tuesday evening, damaging several homes and prompting some residents to flee, four local sources told Amu TV on Wednesday. The clashes occurred in border areas of Zazi Aryub district and began at about 5 p.m. local time, according to the sources, most […]

Pakistan on Monday confirmed carrying out airstrikes in the eastern parts of Afghanistan, claiming it targeted militant camps and hideouts and killed 28 militants, hours after Taliban authorities said the strikes in Kunar and Paktika killed three civilians. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the strikes followed an intelligence-based ground operation Sunday in the Kohat and Hangu districts of […]

Pakistan carried out air and drone attacks in Afghanistan on at least 15 occasions over nearly a year, targeting Kabul and several provinces and causing hundreds of civilian casualties, according to an Amu TV review of the attacks and UN casualty reports. The review found that the attacks killed 364 civilians and wounded 346 others. The strikes, from October 2025 […]

L’opposition intérieure aux talibans s’élargit. À la fin du mois d’août, le Front uni d’Afghanistan a déclaré qu’au moins 180 dignitaires religieux afghans, islamologues et chercheurs avaient émis une fatwa en faveur de la guerre ou d’actions armées contre le mouvement taliban. Selon le communiqué du Front, cette décision religieuse a été rendue par un conseil de savants créé dès […]

More than 439,000 Afghan migrants have been deported from Iran so far this year, accounting for 84% of all returns from the country, according to a new report by the UN refugee agency. UNHCR said 522,200 Afghans returned from Iran between Jan. 1 and Sept. 12, including 439,000 who were deported. The agency said large-scale returns are putting additional pressure […]

Taliban forces detained the head and several members of a commission representing Afghanistan’s Shiite community after surrounding its office in Kabul, sources within the commission and Shiite representatives told Amu TV. The sources said personnel from the Taliban’s Justice Ministry surrounded the Shiite Commission’s office on Sunday before entering the building and detaining several people. Those detained were taken to […]

Key Takeaways: In May, an explosion at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan was followed by an intense firefight in which 21 people were killed. It was just one in a series of violent incidents in which militants operating out of Afghanistan, with support from Al-Qaeda, have launched attacks on targets in neighboring Pakistan. A quarter-century ago, the United States […]

Since the Taliban reclaimed power five years ago, Russia has been the only country to formally recognise it as Afghanistan’s legitimate government. When Moscow made that decision in July 2025, Russia appeared to be taking a calculated gamble on post-US Afghanistan. The move formalised a relationship that had already expanded steadily in the preceding years, opening greater space for diplomatic, […]

Pakistan’s UN representative has expressed deep concern over what he called growing terrorist activity from Afghan territory, saying more than 4,700 Pakistanis have been killed in such attacks over the past three years. Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s representative to the United Nations, told a Security Council meeting on Friday, 11 September, marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has repeatedly said it will not allow any group to use Afghan territory to carry out attacks against neighbouring countries. Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov says strengthening security along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan is among Moscow’s security and defence priorities. Speaking in Moscow on Tuesday, September 8, at an event marking the 35th anniversary of […]