Police say a group of militants have ambushed a police vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing four officers and wounding two others.

At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, but to control them. But for Afghans, the war did not end; it only changed.

Top Afghan officials say they want two American detainees released “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration says a third one should be included. By Elian Peltier and Adam Goldman Elian ...

Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said that preliminary findings suggest the suicide bomber had been on the ...

Accurate scrutiny should begin with precision about what the law actually says, how it functions legally, and where interpretation begins to exceed text. Recent reporting on the Taliban’s January 2026 ...

Taliban officials deny holding a U.S.-Afghan citizen, who witnesses and U.S. officials say was detained by Afghanistan’s intelligence services in 2022. By Elian Peltier and Adam Goldman On a summer ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The U.S. government is negotiating for the release of a Colorado man who has been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan for the past year. Dennis Coyle, a ...

Beijing has demanded the Taliban government protect its citizens after an explosion at a Chinese-run restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least seven people. Six Afghans and one Chinese ...

A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and injured 169 during Friday prayers at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, authorities said.

The Battle of Maxen was a fierce encounter in the Seven Years' War. On that fateful day, the Austrian army, under the command of Field Marshal Daun, sprang a surprise ambush on the unsuspecting ...

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 ...