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A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an anti-militant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, including police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said.The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where demonstrators had gathered ...

An attack late Wednesday on a checkpoint in northern Pakistan left at least seven police officers and eight alleged "terrorists" dead, local media reported, just days after more than two dozen people were killed in a similar clash. The Wednesday evening attack occurred in Hangu district, in Pakistan's northern ...

Wars have been fought over land, over succession, over a woman said to have launched a thousand ships toward Troy. Opium got its own war twice, in 1839 and again in 1856, but not the kind that name suggests. Britain went to war for the right to keep selling ...

Beijing is doubling down on overland trade routes across Central Asia as continued disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider region expose the vulnerability of global shipping chokepoints.A new link to Afghanistan via Uzbekistan offers a practical example of this long-term diversification push. However, observers caution that ...

Afghan Christian convert and former government official Ziba Mastoor says she fled to Qatar earlier this month after Taliban intelligence operatives pursued her from Afghanistan into Pakistan, leaving her dependent on a temporary visa and fearful that deportation could place her life in danger. For more stories from The Media ...

Members of Afghan settlements in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa border province hurriedly packed up belongings this week while others hid at home as police launched a “large-scale crackdown” on undocumented residents.Authorities in the northern province carried out housing demolitions, roadside identity checks and told Afghans to leave as part of ...

Pakistan has renewed deadly air strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, officials in both countries said Wednesday, in the worst violence in weeks following a period of relative calm. Pakistan's government said on Wednesday that 26 "militants" linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group were killed in the attacks.  "In the aftermath ...

At least 13 persons, including 11 children, were killed after Pakistan’s military carried out air strikes in three provinces in Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Afghan Taliban, said on Wednesday, as cross-border clashes between the neighbouring countries intensified after a period of relative calm.“Last night, the Pakistani military ...

 At least 13 people were killed, including 11 children, after Pakistan's military launched air strikes in three Afghan provinces, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Wednesday, in a renewal of a conflict that has killed hundreds this year.At least 14 others - all of them children and women ...

KABUL — Afghanistan said on Wednesday Pakistan's military launched new airstrikes targeting the country, killing at least 13 people, most of them children, and wounding 14 others.The air attacks on the provinces of Kunar, Khost and Paktika late on Tuesday were the deadliest in weeks and follow a period ...