Police say gunmen on motorcycles ambushed a vehicle and killed 3 soldiers in the city of Peshawar
Spokesman for splinter faction of Pakistani Taliban contacts VOA to take responsibility for attack in Mohmand Agency - semi-autonomous tribal district on Afghan border
Afghan officials say efforts underway to resolve internal political disputes; pledge comes day after UN calls situation ‘precarious’
Ordeal began after two assailants wearing suicide vests stormed Mirwais Hospital compound in Kandahar and opened fire on security guards
Hekmatyar meanwhile alleges internal differences prevented Kabul government from announcing peace deal with his group
Afghanistan president, before upcoming official visit to New Delhi, threatens to close transit trade facilities for Pakistan if it continues to refuse his country access to Indian markets through Wagah border station
Signing could occur as early as Saturday; US designated former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a terrorist in 2003
After intense fighting Thursday in central Uruzgan province’s capital, security forces reportedly go door to door to dislodge remaining insurgents
Threat to aid workers comes as millions of people in conflict-hit country need urgent humanitarian assistance
General Raheel Sharif says those fighting Pakistan’s efforts to promote Afghan peace should remember that Afghanistan is 'our neighbor' and 'brother Islamic country'
Overnight militant siege in central Kabul is over
Taliban calls for New Delhi to halt export of military equipment
In addition, chronic malnutrition affects more than 40 percent of children under five years old in Afghanistan
Attacker strikes hours after security forces in eliminated 4 suicide bombers in Peshawar
The southwestern Chaman crossing was closed two weeks ago after anti-Pakistan rally on Afghan side of the border turned violent
Chaman border facility was closed about two weeks ago when Afghans staged anti-Pakistan demonstration on their side and some angry protesters attacked border gate and burned Pakistani flag, say officials in Islamabad
General Nicholson, who heads NATO’s Resolute Support mission, acknowledges their sacrifice, calls for ousting ‘corrupt’ military leaders
Insurgents took couple and their children hostage in Afghanistan in 2012
Activists say enforced disappearances have caused agony to many families and constitute serious human rights violations
Kerry Jane Wilson, 60, was kidnapped four months ago in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad
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