Latest in: Afghanistan-Pakistan tensions

Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Photo Central Intelligence Agency In a setback to confidence-building efforts between uneasy neighbors, Afghan forces from across the border targeted Pakistani security personnel escorting a census team in Balochistan’s Chaman area early Friday. Reports...

US Soldiers  watch as two Chinook helicopters fly in to take them back to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan Nov. 4, 2008.  Photo by Spc. Mary L. Gonzalez, CJTF-101 Public Affairs via Wikimedia The United States’ participation...

Amid ongoing border tensions, Pakistan has underlined that a close cooperation and meaningful engagement between Pakistan and Afghanistan in areas of security, counter-terrorism and border management is necessary to preventing cross-border movement of terrorist groups and...

Emphasizing that peace in Afghanistan is an “absolute imperative” for Pakistan, Islamabad’s ambassador to the United States has listed five areas of cooperative progress towards the goal for stability in the landlocked western neighboring country.  Ambassador...

A U.S. airstrike this month in southeast Afghanistan killed the militant behind the Marriott hotel attack in Islamabad and an assault on Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pentagon said Saturday. The killing of al-Qaeda operative Qari...

Pakistan has started erecting a fence along its border with Afghanistan, a decision it says has been prompted by a spate of bombings last month which were traced back to militants hiding inside the Afghan territory....

A view into Pakistan from the Afghan border at Torkham Gate. Photo Staff Sgt. Ryan Matson (U.S. Armed Forces) via Wikimedia Commons Pakistan reopened border crossings with Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds, more than a month after they...