At the centre of the hostilities is the contentious Durand Line, the international border between the two nations delineated ...

When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...

* More recruits needed from Taliban heartlands * Police drop-out rates stand at 25 percent By David Brunnstrom BRUSSELS, March 3 (Reuters) - High drop-out and low recruitment rates have hampered NATO ...

Pashtun Zarghun district, Afghanistan, Feb. 9, 2010: Afghan Police Capt. Abdul Zaher, left, and Staff Sgt. Darvin Cosby, 29, of Chicago, center, guard a suspect arrested by Afghan police as they ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 26 -- The U.N.-brokered conference of more than 30 Afghan leaders that begins in Germany Tuesday is in danger of becoming marginalized before it starts because new political ...

Pakistani authorities have banned a popular civil rights movement that campaigns for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has been engaged in “certain activities” ...

We’re just back from some travel in Ohio to see family, friends and even a couple of doctors. One of our hotels was serviced by porters who were refugees from Afghanistan. I was using a cane because ...

Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore have detained several members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) who were protesting the continuing detention of group leader Manzoor Pashteen, who has ...

The Afghan province of Uruzgan, north of Kandahar, is brutal territory. Its villages have been racked by decades of war, and the summer heat can reach an inhospitable 120[degrees]. A few weeks ago, ...