"The United States supports Pakistan's right ​to defend itself against attacks from the Taliban, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group," a State Department spokesperson said in an emailed ...

Escalating tensions between the two nations flared into open conflict, as Pakistan’s defense minister said his country’s ...

Weeks after the Taliban's lightning offensive in 2021 wrested control of Afghanistan from a U.S.-led military coalition, ...

The airstrikes came hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions and follow months of worsening ...

Qatar once again appears to be mediating. Its minister of state, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, spoke Friday with the ...

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in ...

Pakistan's defence minister declares "open war" against Taliban after Islamabad says two of its soldiers were killed.

Pakistan struck Kabul and two other provinces hours after the Taliban launched cross-border attacks, in the latest escalation ...

Pakistan's defence minister says the country is in 'open war' with Afghanistan, after airstrikes were launched on Kabul as ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan have continued trading attacks after Pakistan bombed Afghanistan’s two biggest cities in the early ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries that Pakistan's defence ...