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 ...

Factional rivalries, tribal loyalties, authoritarian rule and hardline policies are testing Afghan regime cohesion ...

Matthew W. McElhinney faded in and out of consciousness as the morphine kicked in. Other Marines grasped his hand, squeezed it and talked to him, trying anything to keep him awake. “What’s your ...

Taliban attack teams ambush Marines as they return to base outside Marja. MARJA, Afghanistan, June 25, 2010— -- In Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province this morning, a Marine squad headed into ...

People bring a man, injured in the clashes between Pakistani and Afghan forces in the border area, for medical treatment at a hospital in Chaman, a town on the Pakistan side of the border, on ...

Four years ago, the world watched the ignominious end of 20 years of the U.S. military’s hard work and sacrifice in Afghanistan as the country fell to the Taliban. Absent any evacuation plan, Afghan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pakistani military said that 23 of its soldiers were killed in the most serious clashes between the neighbours since the ...

The Taliban will need American help to end a conflict that would surely destroy their hold on power. There is only one thing they could offer America in return. A bizarre conflict has erupted in the ...

Pakistan has blamed India for the military conflict with Afghanistan. Shahbaz Sharif has directly stated that India's influence within the Taliban regime is the cause of the conflict. Islamabad: ...

On Fault Lines this week: Back in the early 1990s, Pakistan helped shape the Taliban. The ISI saw them as strategic depth. A proxy against India in Afghanistan. That gamble seemed smart...until it ...