Host Iran taps regional players as reliable actors; warns against prescriptions ‘imported’ from foreign powers.

Both sides accuse the other of starting the overnight fighting and breaching a fragile ceasefire agreed in October.

The current conflict is the most serious since the Taliban’s return in 2021. Yet it is also a logical extension of the ...

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Pakistan’s newly appointed chief of defense forces has warned Afghanistan’s Taliban government to choose between maintaining ...

After deadly cross-border military clashes, the Pakistani and Afghan governments have locked their populations in a trade war ...

The statement comes months after Pakistan’s failed attempt to prevent India’s Operation Sindoor, a series of retaliatory ...

Officials say Pakistani troops and Afghan forces have exchanged fire along the two countries' tense border but no casualties ...

Labeling Afghans a national security threat, Pakistan has forced out about a million this year, depriving them of a haven ...

Escalating tensions between Islamabad and Kabul are threatening the interests of China, the dominant economic player in the ...

An overnight exchange of fire between Afghan forces and Pakistani troops along the two countries' tense border killed five ...

Türkiye is ready to help uphold the Pakistan-Afghanistan truce, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Pakistani Prime Minister ...