One can understand President Donald Trump’s wish to leave Afghanistan. There are, however, ways to leave without losing people, respect, and allies. Mr. Trump, instead of leaving unilaterally, while reinforcing the democratically elected government in Kabul without boots on the ground, is unfortunately empowering his Taliban enemy by protracted negotiations, where America makes successive concessions and ultimately throws its Afghan […]

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The Taliban killed at least 10 people, including an American and a Romanian soldier, and wounded 42 more in a suicide bombing near a National Directorate of Security checkpoint in the Afghan capital of Kabul today. Today’s attack in Kabul is the latest in a series of recent Taliban operations across the country, including assaults on two provincial capitals, an […]

The Mirage V in question possesses a helmet-mounted display, mission pods, and night strike capability. Sources said Pakistan would upgrade these jets before putting a few of them into operation.

The Afghan government says it has serious doubts about a draft peace agreement recently reached between United States and Taliban negotiators and wants further clarification.

Hours after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said his country will not initiate a nuclear war with India, his foreign ministry has clarified that the statement was taken out of context and there’s been no change in its nuke policy.

Nine former U.S. ambassadors have warned that Afghanistan could collapse in a “total civil war” if the United States withdraws its forces before a “real” peace deal involving the Kabul government is reached with the Taliban.

Since the last two decades, Pakistan has been in the eyes of storm due to the rampant rise of terrorism. This created continuous political turbulence, social fragmentation, and internal security disorder in society. 9/11 attacks, the fatal and most terrible event of the 21st century, shifted the paradigm of the global security system. It’s extremely baffling that despite having the […]

Afghanistan’s government expects the U.S. envoy negotiating with the Taliban on ending America’s longest war to visit Kabul “in one or two days” to share developments in the talks that continue in Qatar, a presidential spokesman said Wednesday.