India, Oct. 30 -- The Pashtun Taliban has risen like a phoenix: transformed from Mujahideen who pushed back the Soviets in 1979 to take power in Kabul in 1996 - as the creation of Pakistan (by Maj Gen ...

Pakistan, established in 1947 as a homeland for South Asia’s Muslims, occupies a pivotal position in regional geopolitics, navigating complex relationships with neighboring Afghanistan and global ...

This handout photo from Pakistan’s ISPR shows guns and other military equipment purportedly seized from TTP fighters in Pishin District, Oct. 18, 2024. The TTP emerged in 2007 from a coalition of ...

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistani military as hostilities between the two ...

On July 3, Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government, a move that the Taliban’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, quickly praised as a “courageous step” and urged ...

WAZIRISTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban envoy drew his white trousers up before settling on the floor of a mud-walled house in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants unleashed a wave of rockets at Kabul's international airport and government buildings Tuesday, less than three weeks before presidential elections. The rockets ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov. 16 -- A news agency close to the Taliban leadership reported tonight it had agreed to turn over the key city of Kandahar to two ethnic Pashtun tribal chiefs, bowing to pressure ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — At least three people were killed in clashes Wednesday between Pakistani police and supporters of a rights group advocating for the Pashtun ethnic minority, angered by a ...

Tensions flared between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday as the Taliban accused Pakistani forces of air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, which killed 9 children and a woman, and injured four others.

This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo) PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — At least three people were killed in clashes Wednesday between Pakistani ...