#Afghanistan

U.S. presidents have promised short, decisive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. All have proved much more difficult than advertised and fallen far short of the political goals set at the beginning.

A truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan has overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 22 people and injuring about 36.

Truck was carrying Afghan families returning Pakistan when it overturned, official says

India has put Operation Sindoor on hold. Another attack in India that may appear ‘undeniably’ cross-border in nature, may re-ignite the next round of the India-Pakistan conflict

A Navy officer accused of threatening an interpreter in Afghanistan has been found not guilty at a court martial.

The United Nations and rights groups say Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have detained at least three journalists on undisclosed charges in recent days.

Afghanistan’s humanitarian and economic crisis is deepening despite modest economic growth, with nearly three in four people unable to meet basic needs, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said on Wednesday.

A suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan kills nine and injures dozens at a police checkpoint, as tensions with Afghanistan escalate over cross-border militancy.

Fighting between the Taliban and Pakistani forces intensified in February, with many civilians killed in air raids.

About 30 people wounded in blast in town of Sarai Naurang, in Lakki Marwat district, northwestern Pakistan.

From Independent RSS Feed: At least 9 killed after bomb rigged to rickshaw explodes in Pakistan market

Police in Pakistan say nine people have been killed and more than two dozen others wounded when a bomb rigged to a rickshaw exploded in a bazaar

Authorities report that the death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan has risen to 14 police officers

Bomber and several fighters detonate explosives-laden vehicle near security post in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Taliban-controlled Afghanistan owes a Dubai airport-security firm more than $15 million, and the company tried to collect by going after airline overflight fees held by IATA in a frozen Swiss account. A D.C.…

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Thousands of Afghans who assisted US forces are stuck in limbo in Qatar. Instead of promised resettlement in America, they face an uncertain future in another war-torn country

The incident is the latest test of a fragile ceasefire agreed between the two countries last month.