Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veronica Bartevian, left, a Mexican and Armenian American, poses with her close friends, Mursal Najibi, center, Habibullah Jafari, ...

Kabul and Islamabad report high number of casualties in the latest flare-up of fighting near the Afghan-Pakistan border. The escalation of violence comes amid tensions over alleged Taliban sheltering ...

Afghanistan finally has a new president after months of political instability. Ashraf Ghani was sworn in on Monday. And on Tuesday, he signed a bilateral security agreement with the United States.

Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further ...

There is something bitterly ironic about Pakistan declaring “open war” against the Taliban in Afghanistan. South Asia’s escalating bloodshed amounts to a glaring example of a country being driven to ...

The Afghan city of Jalalabad is where top al-Qaida leaders were last seen as they fled Kabul after the attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11. The... Post-Taliban Jalalabad Fighting For Stability, Hope ...

Pakistan, once a close ally of the Taliban, is now clashing fiercely with Afghanistan along the contested Durand Line. Longstanding alliances have deteriorated, revealing the precarious nature of this ...

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 ...

The renewed violence between the neighboring countries stems from Pakistan’s accusations that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has harbored a militant group.

Taliban fighters march in formation. (Taliban Ministry of Defense on X) Heavy clashes between Pakistan and the Taliban-led Afghan government broke out on February 27, with hundreds of casualties ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced that a ceasefire with neighboring Pakistan would go into effect Wednesday, after a second eruption of cross-border violence in less than a week that has left ...