A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare ...

Pakistani security forces carried out an intelligence-based ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan​ border, followed by "calibrated strikes." ...

Pakistani security forces have raided multiple militant hideouts in the country's northwest region, killing Pakistani Taliban and seizing a cache of weapons.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.

India’s diplomatic outreach to the Taliban has increased tremendously over the last year, following the United Arab Emirates’ ...

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Rights groups said Tuesday’s meeting undercuts the E.U.’s human rights obligations and could endanger people in Europe and Afghanistan.

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

To facilitate the deportation of criminals to Afghanistan, the German government is allowing Taliban diplomats into the ...

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL, June 25 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban government has ordered a nationwide ban on civil servants' smartphone use, a military court order showed, prompting warnings ...

Ongoing and systematic persecution of Afghanistan’s Hazara community meets the standard of genocide, according to a report published September 1 by the New Lines Institute (NLI). The report focuses on ...

The Taliban has gained de facto international acceptance since seizing power in Afghanistan in 2021, despite widespread human rights abuses. Western countries and the EU have been engaging with the ...