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Russia Denies Supplying Taliban After NATO Claim
Russia on Friday denied allegations by the commander of NATO that Moscow may be assisting the Taliban as the insurgents...
Russia May Be Supplying Taliban Fighters
The top US general in Europe said on Thursday he has seen growing Russian influence on the Afghan Taliban, and raised...
400,000 Afghan Children Expected To Drop Out of School
More than 400,000 Afghan children are expected to drop out of school this year in the face of growing insecurity and...
Russia ‘perhaps’ Supplying Taliban
Russia is "perhaps" supplying the Taliban as they fight US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, a top US general said...
Pakistan PM Orders Reopening of Border With Afghanistan
Pakistan on Monday ordered the border with Afghanistan to be reopened "immediately", a month after it was closed amid...
Blast Targets Bus In Downtown Kabul During Rush Hour
A powerful explosion struck a bus in downtown Kabul during rush hour Monday, officials said, sending smoke rising in...
Pakistan Gunfights Kill 15 Militants, Two Soldiers
At least 15 militants and two soldiers have been killed in two separate gun battles in a relatively peaceful district...
Blast, Gunfire Hit Kabul Military Hospital
An explosion and gunfire rattled Kabul's diplomatic district on Wednesday as insurgents attacked Afghanistan's largest...
Afghanistan Launches Centre To Protect Women Journalists
Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday launched a centre to protect women journalists in Afghanistan, the second most...
Five Troops, 10 Militants Dead In Pakistan Border Raid
Five Pakistani soldiers and 10 militants were killed in a coordinated overnight raid at several border posts on the...
Taliban Claim Attacks In Afghan Capital, At Least 15 Dead
Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul on Wednesday, as...
5 Dead, 30 Injured In Bomb Attack In Lahore
At least five people were killed and 30 injured after a blast ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area of...
Families Flee As Pakistan Cracks Down Along Afghan Border
Hundreds of families were fleeing from both sides of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan Monday, officials said, as...
Afghan Villagers Flee Pakistani Cross-Border Firing
Hundreds of Afghan families have been displaced by cross-border rocket and artillery fire by Pakistani troops, an aid...
Islamic State-Claimed Bomb Kills 70 At Pakistani Shrine
At least 70 people died Thursday when a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan, police said, in the...
Deadly IS Attack On Sufi Shrine In Sindh
A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 50 people, reports say. The bomber blew...
Taliban Suicide Bombers Kill Five In NW Pakistan
Five people were killed Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan's restive tribal...
Pakistan Mourns Lahore Victims of Taliban Attack
Pakistanis Tuesday mourned the victims of a Taliban-claimed suicide bomb in Lahore, as the death toll rose to 15 and...
Blast Kills At Least 11, Injures 60 In Pakistan’s Lahore
At least 11 people have been killed and 60 were wounded after a Taliban off-shoot attacked a demonstration in Lahore,...