Pakistan had its deadliest year in over a decade in 2025, with combat-related deaths surging 74%, according to a new report from an independent think tank ...

The International Crisis Group warns that Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions could escalate in 2026, saying Islamabad may strike again if militant attacks persist despite a ceasefire and strained ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as a tenuous ceasefire holds following cross-border clashes that left dozens of people dead and hundreds wounded. Here's a ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s defense minister warned Afghanistan on Wednesday that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by militants on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response, hours after talks ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed 20 Pakistani Taliban insurgents in raids on hideouts in the northwest region bordering Afghanistan, the military said Monday, as tensions between the ...

Maulana Fazlur Rehman posed a direct challenge to the military’s justification for targeting militant groups in Afghanistan, drawing a sharp comparison to India’s actions in Pakistan. He was speaking ...

ISLAMABAD — A suicide car bomber and three gunmen attacked a military post near a village in northwest Pakistan on Friday, ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday offered talks to Afghanistan’s Taliban government in a renewed peace overture, about a week after negotiations between the two sides collapsed ...

The TTP’s growing attacks in Pakistan from sanctuaries in Afghanistan led to serious frictions with Kabul. Attacks by Baloch ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as a tenuous ceasefire holds following cross-border clashes that left dozens of people dead and ...

China’s pragmatic approach towards the Taliban — offering economic cooperation contingent on security — represents a practical, albeit fragile, paradigm for managing difficult regimes.