The two countries have also decided to set up combined teams comprising of foreign ministry and national security officials of each country...

"Taliban are patron of JeM chief Masood Azhar and the LeT and one wonders how the government will protect the interests of India as such te...

People familiar with the meetings said the immediate priority of the government is to evacuate nearly 200 Indians, including Indian embassy...

Balkh lawmaker Abas Ebrahimzada said the province's national army corps surrendered first, which prompted the pro-government militias and o...

India is constantly monitoring the situation in Afghanistan and contingency plans are in place to deal with any situation including evacuat...

Following is a list of provincial capitals that have fallen to, or are being contested by the Islamist militants, who are fighting to reimp...

On Thursday, the Taliban also seized the historic central city of Ghazni, 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Kabul.

The Taliban had publicly pledged to be magnanimous in victory, assuring government officials, troops and the people of Afghanistan that the...

Over the past six days, the insurgents have overrun nine provincial capitals across the country, most of them clustered in the north, in a ...

The US military, which has already withdrawn most of its troops ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline to exit the country after 20 years of war, sai...

In recent days the Taliban have escalated attacks on northern provinces, which lie outside their traditional strongholds in the south but w...

The Afghan government, as a result of the offensive, deployed hundreds of special forces on Sunday as the Taliban advanced to capture the c...

A delegation of senior Afghan leaders met the Taliban's political leadership in the Qatari capital over the last two days, but a Taliban st...

A statement purporting to come from the Taliban, circulated on social media this week, ordered villagers to marry off their daughters and w...

"The port of Islam Qala is now under our full control and we will try to put it back in operation today," Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman f...

Dahla Dam, which provides irrigation to farmers via a network of canals as well as drinking water for the provincial capital, was now under...

The Pakistani Taliban have captured large tracts of the Tirah Valley in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan.