How do Pakistan and Taliban Afghan militaries stack up as tensions flare?Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has intensified, with Pakistan's defence minister declaring "open war." Pakistan's m...
27 Feb, 2026, 09.39 AM IST
'If Jaya wore a white saree': Director of Amitabh Bachchan's blockbuster reveals why superstar's mother threatened himProducer Manoj Desai recounted the extraordinary risks taken during the filming of Khuda Gawah in war-torn Afghanistan over three decades a...
19 Oct, 2025, 03.33 PM IST
Af-Pak relations may not normalise for a long time to comePakistan's unprovoked airstrikes in Afghanistan have failed to achieve objectives, with the Taliban inflicting significant damage on the Pa...
16 Oct, 2025, 08.36 AM IST
Russia scraps Taliban's 'terror' label amid warming tiesRussia's Supreme Court has removed the Taliban's designation as a terrorist organization, signaling a shift towards closer ties with Afghan...
17 Apr, 2025, 07.15 PM IST
Russia has decided 'at highest level' to remove Taliban from terrorist list: ReportsRussia's Foreign Ministry announced that the decision to remove the Taliban from the terrorist organisations list was made at the highest l...
04 Oct, 2024, 04.16 PM IST
Kremlin dismisses 'lies' that Putin has doubles and sits in a bunkerKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov listed what he said were fabrications about Russia in a speech that touched on the country's history since ...
25 Apr, 2023, 11.36 PM IST
View: Biden fundamentally changes US policy after 30 years to return America's gaze to Europe -- away from AsiaBiden has been working with unusually excellent intelligence on Russian intentions since last December when the CIA first predicted that Ru...
10 Mar, 2022, 08.02 AM IST
Important to incentivise Taliban so that they fulfil promises, says Pakistan PM Imran KhanRecently, according to a media report, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has called Afghanistan "more stable" after the Tali...
27 Sep, 2021, 08.05 PM IST
Leaving Afghanistan, US general's ghostly image books place in historyAs a moment in history, the image of Major General Chris Donahue's departure could be cast alongside that of a Soviet general, who led an a...
31 Aug, 2021, 07.25 PM IST
The Afghan war: Mr Biden, you did start the fire, it wasn't always burningVolumes of research on how the CIA helped to form, finance and create safe havens for non-Afghan jihadi groups in its war against communism...
21 Aug, 2021, 11.00 PM IST
The Taliban: What could its return to power mean for Afghanistan?The unfavourable conditions on the ground created fertile ground for the emergence of the Taliban. An Islamic fundamentalist group dominate...
27 Jul, 2021, 11.42 AM IST
Russia says Taliban ready for 'compromise'His comments came after another round of inconclusive talks in Qatar over the weekend between the Afghan government and the Taliban that ma...
21 Jul, 2021, 04.05 PM IST
Taliban say they now control 85% of Afghanistan's territoryThe announcement came at a press conference at the end of a visit by a senior Taliban delegation to Moscow this week — a trip meant to offe...
09 Jul, 2021, 08.00 PM IST
Afghan fighting rages as US forces see exit by end AugustWashington's announcement came after all US and NATO troops vacated their main Bagram Air Base, from where the coalition forces led operati...
03 Jul, 2021, 05.53 PM IST
It''s imminent: After nearly twenty years United States to leave Bagram“Bagram grew into such a massive military installation that, as with few other bases in Afghanistan and even Iraq, it came to symbolize and...
29 Jun, 2021, 02.32 PM IST
Russian envoy admits that intervention in Afghanistan was a mistakeDescribing the Soviet intervention in Afghan as a mistake, Alexey Y Dedov said that it is nothing like Russia's support for the "legitimate...
13 May, 2016, 04.30 PM IST
- Mumbai attackers trained by special forces: Russian expert
Handwriting and character of the Mumbai events demonstrates that they were not ordinary terrorists. More on investigations I Full coverage ...
30 Nov, 2008, 09.17 PM IST