Taliban Declare Truce ‘Broken’ After Pakistan Strikes on Afghanistan

The tenuous peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan appears to have ended after days of escalating conflict that came to a ...

Afghan earthquake triggers contradictory Taliban tactics on rescuing women

The Taliban responded with contradictory stances in the effort to rescue women and girls who were wounded and left homeless.

Pakistan, Taliban Hold Talks in Doha on Cross-Border Militancy

Pakistan and Afghan officials are holding negotiations in Qatar’s capital to find “immediate” steps to counter cross-border ...
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Growing India-Taliban ties anger neighbouring Pakistan

As fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated into rare, bloody combat this month, Islamabad pointed fingers at ...
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Analysis: Why Pakistan and the Taliban won’t find it easy to patch up

Despite the challenges to peace, both know they will hurt from continued hostilities – and need a path to peace.

Afghanistan's Taliban foreign minister meeting with Indian counterpart

The foreign minister of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is meeting with his Indian counterpart in a first high-level diplomatic ...

Taliban minister confronted by rare challenge on trip abroad: women journalists

Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social ...

Why ex-Afghanistan VP has warned Indians against Deoband madrasa: The deep Taliban link

Darul Uloom Deoband, a seminary which was set up in 1866 in Saharanpur, has influenced Islamic teaching in both Pakistan and ...

'Activate your embassy in Kabul': Taliban urges US to reopen mission; seeks trade, ties

The Taliban's interim government in Afghanistan has expressed a desire for good economic and political ties with the US, ...