"We have the option, if no agreement takes place, we have an open war with them," Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in televised remarks from Pakistan. "But I saw that they want peace." ...

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 and Afghanistan have agreed to a new immediate ceasefire during talks in Doha, Qatar’s foreign ministry said early Sunday, following more than a week of deadly clashes which continued despite ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as a tenuous ceasefire holds following cross-border clashes that left dozens of people dead and hundreds wounded. Here's a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghan refugees sit beside trucks loaded with their belongings as they wait their turn to leave for their homeland through a ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to a shaky truce last weekend in talks mediated by Qatar and Turkey, after more than a week of military clashes in which scores and likely hundreds died. Relations ...

Pakistan has repeatedly accused Afghanistan's Taliban rulers of harboring the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group responsible for a surge in attacks inside Pakistan since 2021. Kabul ...

Although American strategic interests in the region greatly diminished following the United States’ military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, the region’s altered political dynamics, ...

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control The eruption of tensions across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in mid-October – marked by a week of cross-border shelling and gunfire ...

Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, famously said that the Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship is “the mother of all relations.” He may have been right. Otherwise how do you explain that ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s defense minister warned Afghanistan on Wednesday that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by militants on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response, hours after talks ...