South Asia
Foreign missions in Kabul issue joint call for Taliban ceasefire
Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul joined hands on Monday to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across ...Afghan Taliban seize border crossing with Pakistan in major advance
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan seized control of a major border crossing with Pakistan on Wednesday, one of the most important objectives they ...Taliban say they control 85% of Afghanistan, humanitarian concerns mount
Taliban officials said on Friday the Sunni Muslim insurgent group had taken control of 85% of territory in Afghanistan, and international concern ...Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
The Taliban claimed Friday to be in control of 85 percent of Afghanistan after seizing key border crossings with Iran and Turkmenistan, ...Indian actor Dilip Kumar, who embodied melancholy on screen, dies at 98
Dilip Kumar, one of India’s most respected actors and known for his roles as a tragic hero in Bollywood films, died on ...Taliban seize key Kandahar district after fierce fighting
The Taliban have captured a key district in their former bastion of Kandahar after fierce night-time fighting with Afghan government forces, officials ...U.S. forces leave Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase after 20 years
American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, a U.S. defence official said, under an agreement with ...Western forces pack up to end their war, Afghans “manage the consequences”
Afghan scrap dealers are picking over the detritus of the two-decade U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan, collecting whatever they can of value ...Thousands displaced by fighting around northern Afghan city
About 5,000 Afghan families have fled their homes in Kunduz after days of fighting between the Taliban and government forces, officials said ...Train collision in Pakistan kills at least 34
At least 34 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had ...














