The Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive on Tuesday, pledging to launch large-scale offensives against government strongholds backed by suicide and guerrilla attacks ...
The Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive, pledging to launch large-scale offensives against government strongholds backed by suicide and guerrilla attacks.
At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded Monday when a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Afghan army recruits near the eastern city of Jalalabad, officials said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday called on the Afghan Taliban to restart direct peace talks with Kabul, weeks after the militant group refused to return to the negotiating table.
US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Kabul Saturday on an unannounced visit to show support for the Afghan unity government and the peace process with the Taliban.
Pakistan hanged three convicted murderers on Wednesday, the same day Amnesty International criticised it for becoming the world's third most prolific executioner after China and Iran.
Afghan fans gave a hero's welcome to their cricket team as they arrived home after a historic triumph over the mighty West Indies at the World Twenty20.
Pakistani authorities hunted on Monday for breakaway Taliban militants who once declared loyalty to Islamic State after the group claimed responsibility for an Easter suicide bomb targeting Christians, that killed at least 70 people.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani played down recent failures to jump start peace talks with the Taliban, instead choosing to highlight recent successes against the nascent Islamic State presence in Afghanistan.
The kidnapped son of a liberal Pakistani governor assassinated by his bodyguard was found, senior officials said Tuesday, just over a week after his father's killer was hanged.
A suicide bomber killed 13 people and injured 23 in northwest Pakistan Monday, in an attack which the Taliban said was revenge for the hanging of an Islamist assassin last week.
The Taliban on Saturday refused to hold direct peace talks with the Afghan government, dealing a blow to international efforts to revive long-stalled negotiations aimed at ending the deadly 14-year insurgency.
