Pakistani forces fired “dozens” of artillery rounds into eastern Afghanistan overnight, Taliban local officials said on Wednesday, as cross-border fighting between the two sides entered its seventh day. In Kunar province, Pakistani border forces fired at least 101 artillery shells into several districts, according to Taliban officials. They said 82 rounds struck Sarkano district, 15 hit Dangam district and four […]

Pakistani airstrikes have targeted three Taliban military sites in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, according to sources familiar with the attacks, as cross-border fighting between Pakistan and the Taliban entered its seventh day. Sources told Amu TV that the strikes hit the Taliban’s air brigade, the third battalion of the Taliban border police, and the 205 Al-Badr Corps, a major […]

At least 28 Taliban forces have been killed and 42 wounded since border clashes with Pakistan began on Feb. 26, the Taliban defense ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Enayat Khwarazmi told a news conference that the figures covered the six days of fighting along the frontier. Pakistan has put the Taliban death toll at more than 350, a claim that […]

The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint strikes carried out by the United States (US) and Israel triggered widespread unrest across Pakistan on March 1, 2026. The protests exposed the country’s fragile internal security environment and the complexity of its diplomatic balancing between competing regional and global actors. Protests erupted in several major cities including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, […]

Taliban and Pakistani border guards clashed again on Sunday at the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan, local sources said, as tensions between the two sides showed little sign of easing. The sources told Amu TV that fighting broke out in the area of the busy frontier crossing, a key trade route between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Details about […]

Russia envisages Afghanistan serving as the irreplaceable transit state for pioneering another North-South Transport Corridor, albeit this time between itself and Pakistan, but this master plan will remain unfulfilled as long as those two’s grievances against one another aren’t adequately addressed. The latest clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are the most serious in decades, have prompted a flurry of […]

Wave of strikes comes after Taliban forces attack Pakistani border troops following earlier action from Islamabad Pakistan has bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital, Kabul, with Islamabad’s defence minister declaring that the hostile neighbours were in a state of “open war” as a cycle of retaliatory attacks escalated further. Witnesses in Kabul and Kandahar, the southern Afghan city, […]

Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Amir Khan Muttaqi, held separate phone calls with senior officials from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, focusing on the recent escalation between Afghanistan and Pakistan. In his call with Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, Muttaqi said Afghanistan’s recent security actions were aimed at protecting sovereignty and territorial […]

The Taliban’s Defense Ministry claimed Saturday that 110 Pakistani soldiers had been killed and 68 wounded in what it described as retaliatory operations over the past two days. In a statement, the ministry said its forces had carried out continued “operation” against Pakistani troops and had seized 27 military posts. It also claimed that key military centers and facilities inside […]

Pakistan information minister on Friday confirmed that three cities, all in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were targeted by Taliban drone attacks, claiming that no one was harmed. Attaullah Tarar said the attacks were carried out in Abbottabad, Swabi and Nowshera, claiming that Pakistan’s anti-drone systems shot down all of the drones and that there was no damage to life. Tarar said the […]