Pakistan joins Gaza Peace Board, rejects Abraham Accord links, backs Palestinian statehood and raises Afghan terror concerns.

Americans are being held in near-solitary confinement by a Taliban counterintelligence unit whose personnel include former detainees from Guantanamo Bay and the US-run Bagram prison.

If Pakistan keeps closing borders, expelling refugees, and masking strategic failures with security rhetoric, it risks entrenching lasting hostility on its western flank.

Khawaja Asif also hinted at deeper defence engagement with Turkey, saying key issues were being discussed and that developments would “unfold and crystallise soon.” ...

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

Pakistan defence minister directly blamed the Taliban government in Kabul for harbouring and facilitating Tehreek-e-Taliban ...

A recent attack by Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) against Chinese nationals in Afghanistan has raised questions, with analysts ...

Taliban officials deny holding a U.S.-Afghan citizen, who witnesses and U.S. officials say was detained by Afghanistan’s intelligence services in 2022.

Pakistan’s renewed relevance in great power politics in 2025 came as the military consolidated its power and further eroded ...

He accepted those duties in writing. He certified compliance. He agreed to oversight and accountability provisions that ...

After helping U.S. forces, an Afghan family fled the Bay Area for the U.K. amid a sweeping visa and asylum pause.