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Peace talks between Afghanistan’s Taliban government and Pakistan are advancing, China’s government said Friday, two days after those countries resumed conversations following weeks of fighting that have killed hundreds.

Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban governments have resumed talks in China, which is mediating between the two sides to broker a durable ceasefire after more than a month of fighting, two Pakistani officials said Wednesd...

Afghanistan and Pakistan have traded heavy fire, both sides said, days after they announced a temporary pause in fighting, escalating tensions in the volatile region as Islamabad prepares to host talks between the US and...

Afghan authorities said Monday that the death toll from severe weather that has struck swathes of the country over the past four days has increased to 28, with 49 people injured. Dozens of people have died from extreme w...

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Tuesday released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the Foreign Ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday...

key outlawed Pakistani militant group behind numerous gun and bomb attacks announced a three-day ceasefire early Thursday ahead of a key Muslim holiday, hours after Pakistan and Afghanistan also declared a temporary pau...

Pakistani minister ‘strongly refutes and rejects’ Afghan government’s accusation, saying his country only targets military sites.

An air strike by Pakistan on Monday that the Afghan government says killed hundreds of civilians has led to an escalation in the conflict between the South Asian ​neighbours.

Pakistan has targeted militant hideouts in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province overnight, as the fighting that erupted between the two neighbours late last month showed no signs of abating.

Pakistan bombed the fuel depot of private airline Kam Air near Afghanistan's airport of Kandahar, the ruling ​Taliban said on Friday, stepping up the neighbours' worst conflict in years, despite China's efforts to mediat...

Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Tuesday rejected U.S. allegations that it detains foreigners to obtain leverage over other countries, saying Afghan authorities arrest people for violating laws not to make a deal.

Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border on Friday as the ​U.N. said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to mediate for a new ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan as border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan entered their sixth day on Wednesday.

Pakistani and Afghan troops clashed at multiple points along their expansive border on Tuesday as the United Nations ‌mission for Afghanistan warned that 42 civilians in the country had been killed so far in the six-day...

Afghanistan said it was firing at Pakistani jets in Kabul after blasts and gunfire rocked the capital Sunday, compounding instability in a region rattled by U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks on U.S. t...

Pakistan and Afghanistan traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries that Pakistan’s defense minister said Friday means they are now in “open war.”

About 25,000 children in Kunar province are still living in makeshift tents six months after a devastating earthquake struck the region, international aid group Save the Children said on Thursday.

On February 22, Pakistan carried out air strikes in Afghanistan, targeting suspected camps and hideouts of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP).

A senior Pakistani government official has claimed that its military killed at least 70 fighters in air raids along the border with Afghanistan, claims Kabul has denied, amid escalating tensions between the two South Asi...

Pakistan’s Foreign Office summoned the Afghan Deputy Ambassador on Monday to formally register a strong protest following the recent terrorist attack in Bajaur.