Afghanistan News News Afghanistan » Security: Afghanistan's Taliban claims Pakistan airstrikes killed 36 civilians, Pakistan says it was 29 militants
Pakistani security forces carried out an intelligence-based ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, followed by "calibrated strikes." ...
News Afghanistan » Security: Security forces repel Afghan Taliban attack in Kurram, destroy multiple border positions
Pakistani security forces launched a full-scale retaliatory operation after the Afghan Taliban fired unprovoked heavy weapons and mortars into Kurram border posts, destroying multiple positions and ...
News Afghanistan » Security: Pakistani airstrikes kill 36 civilians in Afghanistan and wound 160, officials say
Pakistani forces’ ground operations and strikes killed at least 36 civilians in Afghanistan overnight and wounded more than 160 others, Afghan officials said Monday, as tensions between the neighbors ...
News Afghanistan » Security: Pakistan bombing Afghanistan to distract its own people from security doctrine failures
Kabul: Pakistan has been facing insurgency inside its territory despite fencing the border, closing the crossings and conducting strikes inside Afghanistan, a report has highlighted.
News Afghanistan » Security: 5 dead, 14 missing while attempting to enter Iran illegally from Afghanistan
Afghan security forces found five migrants dead from thirst and extreme heat while attempting an illegal crossing into Iran through remote desert areas. Another 14 remain missing as searches continue.
News Afghanistan » Security: Pakistani, Afghan security forces clash at closed main border crossing
KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani and Afghan security forces clashed on Monday at the recently shuttered main border crossing between the two countries, killing at least one combatant and ...
News Afghanistan » Security: Security Through Human Rights – For Afghanistan, It’s Not ‘Either/Or’
A belief that so-called hard security goals require tradeoffs with human rights imperatives underpinned some of the more egregious mistakes of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, such as supporting a brutal ...
News Afghanistan » Security: UN Security Council extends Afghanistan mandate for just three months
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US First Lady Melania Trump presides over the United Nations Security Council at United Nations headquarters. Niyi Fote/TheNEWS2 ...