As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to ...

Pakistan experienced its deadliest year in more than a decade in 2025, with combat-related deaths surging 74%, according to a ...

ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire. The truce, mediated by Qatar and Turkey, ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday announced a ceasefire following days of the deadliest clashes in years that killed dozens of people on both sides of the border. The pause came ...

Taliban security personnel stand guard near the Ghulam Khan border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Afghanistan's Khost province on Oct. 20, a day after a ceasefire was agreed in Doha, ...

(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Clashes erupted Tuesday between Pakistani and Afghan forces in a remote northwestern border region, with state-run media in Pakistan accusing Afghan troops of opening ...

An Afghan ex-commando who served alongside the British Army fighting the Taliban was deported back to Afghanistan with his family while waiting for UK relocation under a government scheme. The man was ...

Two months ago, Afghanistan sealed its eastern border with neighboring Pakistan soon after Islamabad shut down all routes ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan began peace talks in Doha on October 18 after extending a 48-hour cease-fire. Recent violence included Pakistani air strikes in Afghanistan, killing 10 civilians, and a ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as a tenuous ceasefire holds following cross-border clashes that left dozens of people dead and ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After five days of on-and-off talks in Istanbul to resolve hostilities that flared in the first half of October, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to continue a ceasefire they ...