Relations between the two neighbors hit a low point this month, with fighting killing people on both sides of the border. At issue is a rise in militancy in Pakistan since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

Khawaja Asif accused the Taliban government of harbouring fighters of TTP, the militant group responsible for a string of deadly attacks inside Pakistan.

In a small village in northern Afghanistan, nestled in barren mountains and cut off from main roads, Arsam points to what is left of his house: the few crumbling mud walls that managed to withstand flash floods around March last year.

Oliver Schulz, right, arrives at the New South Wales state Supreme Court in Sydney Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, and pleaded not guilty to the war crime of murder. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP) SYDNEY (AP) — The only Australian soldier to be charged with a war ...

What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself.

Legitimizing its war with the Taliban is a significant hurdle for Pakistan. In the past, Pakistan drew on religion to legitimize its proxy wars in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Now, however, it is becoming difficult for the Pakistani state to use religion to legitimize its war against the Taliban.

Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattled northern Afghanistan overnight, striking at a depth of 28 km near Kholm, close to Mazar‑i‑Sharif, the US Geological Survey said, just two months after a tremor in