Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation said the Afghan Republic’s talks team and the Taliban met on Monday and discussed the agenda to take the peace talks forward.

US Forces-Afghanistan spokesman Colonel Sonny Leggett said on Tuesday afternoon the US military disagrees with Brown University’s “Costs of War” report and said it is one-sided and ignores casualties caused by Taliban and ISIS, including ongoing car bombs, IEDs, rockets and targeted killings.

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 […]