A primary driver in the current war is the rise in terror attacks from the Pakistani Taliban.  Read more at straitstimes.com.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghan women walk past Taliban flags on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Taliban's takeover, on August 14, 2025 [Wakil ...

For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban seized power in the country. For others, life under hard-line Islamist rule ...

KABUL — Hiding in her basement, a Kunduz radio presenter was paralyzed with fear when the Taliban came looking for her as they conducted house-to-house searches for working women after storming the ...

Experts say attacks on Afghanistan are ‘defensive, not offensive’ but carry a risk of spiralling cycle of violence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with Islamabad’s ...

Devastated by four decades of conflict, Afghanistan has long relied on foreign aid. But the Taliban takeover in 2021 saw ...