Pakistan’s defense minister warned Afghanistan on Wednesday that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by militants on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response, hours after talks between the two countries in Istanbul failed to secure a peace agreement.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board has withdrawn its national team from next month’s Twenty20 tri-series in Pakistan after it said three local cricketers were killed in Pakistan military strikes in southeastern Paktika province Friday.

At least six Pakistani soldiers, including a captain, were killed in an IED explosion targeting a military convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram District. Seven militants were also killed in the subsequent gunbattle.

Some 1,300 Afghans are in limbo at an American camp in Qatar, unable to continue to the U.S. but in danger if they go back home.

Russia has hosted a delegation of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government and warned against any foreign military presence in the country. Speaking at an international meeting on Afghanistan

The drawdown and ultimate evacuation of the American troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 marked the end of the longest war in United States history. According to the National Security Archive,

Pakistan’s defense minister has warned Afghanistan that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by militants on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response

Afghan police say Pakistan’s military carried out strikes in southeastern Afghanistan on just hours after a two-day ceasefire between the neighboring countries expired.