Given that Asim Munir is now Washington's blue-eyed boy in the region, India's approach to Afghanistan cannot but align with ...

Following a deadly militant attack on its security forces, Pakistan launched retailatory airstrikes into Afghanistan that ...

September 11, 2001, was a turning point that reshaped the world’s security order. Al-Qaida’s attacks inside the United States shattered the assumption of invulnerability for the world’s strongest ...

A full-blown conflict between Afghanistan’s Taliban and neighboring Pakistan seemed unthinkable when the hard-line Islamist group, a longtime ally of Islamabad, seized power in 2021 as international ...

Cross-border strikes and rising militant attacks in 2026 have turned long-standing tensions between Pakistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan into a major regional security crisis. Pakistan’s ...

A1: The announcement of “open war” follows a week of escalating conflict. On February 22, 2026, Pakistan carried out multiple air strikes against several alleged camps used by militant groups, ...

On February 27, Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq (Righteous Fury) against its former ally, the Taliban in Afghanistan. This is the first attack in which Pakistan directly targeted the Afghan ...

The challenges Pakistan faces today are often described in binary terms — a threat here, a conflict there — but the reality is far more chaotic and intricate, much like the scientific conundrum known ...

Pakistan’s surprising role in the Iran war, explained.

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 ...