Australia’s most decorated living veteran has walked free on bail from a Sydney prison 10 days after he was charged with committing war crimes in Afghanistan.

Suspected militants have opened fire on a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing one of them and wounding four others.

China’s government says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting that has killed hundreds of people.

Australia’s most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, faces war crime charges on allegations that he killed five unarmed Afghans while serving in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012.

The Afghanistan Disaster Management Authority says widespread flooding, landslides and lightning strikes triggered by heavy rain and storms across the country have left 77 people dead and 137 injured over the past 10 days.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least eight members of a refugee family near Kabul.

Iran shooting down two American military jets marks an exceedingly rare assault for the U.S. that hasn't happened in more than 20 years.

Peace talks between Afghanistan’s Taliban government and Pakistan are advancing, China’s government said, two days after those countries resumed conversations after weeks of fighting that have killed hundreds.

Pakistan confirms it is holding peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government in China.

Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban governments have resumed talks in China, which is mediating between the two sides to broker a durable ceasefire after weeks of fighting.

Afghanistan’s government has accused Pakistan’s military of shelling the outskirts of an eastern Afghan city.

Afghan authorities say that severe flooding, a landslide and thunderstorms in parts of Afghanistan have left 17 people dead and 26 injured over the last 24 hours.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says that authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle, held in Afghanistan since January 2025.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting.

Rescue crews are digging bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul.

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital with an airstrike.

Pakistan’s president says Afghanistan’s Taliban government has crossed a red line by launching drones into Pakistan, and Pakistan has reportedly answered with airstrikes.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan’s military of targeting homes in airstrikes in Kabul and Kandahar Province.

The State Department will permanently close the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has been America’s closest diplomatic mission to the Afghan border.

Pakistan says that Afghan forces have attacked Pakistani military positions along the border, triggering intense clashes that left 67 Afghan troops and one Pakistani soldier dead.

Afghanistan says it has thwarted an attempted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries.

Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson says.

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of the U.S. government’s decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.

A senior French official has emphasized the importance of honoring French soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

Heavy snow and rainfall over the past three days have killed more than 60 people and injured over 100 across Afghanistan, the country’s disaster management authority says, as authorities in the impoverished country struggle to open roads and gain access to cut-off villages.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has signaled that U.S. President Donald Trump to apologize for his false assertion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least seven people including a Chinese national and wounded more than a dozen others.

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating.

Immigration lawyers and authorities say arrests of Afghans are on the rise following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The suspect in the attack is an Afghan national.

Authorities have charged a Texas man with making threats online after they say a video showing him threatening to build a bomb and conduct a suicide attack was posted to TikTok and other social media sites.

The Trump administration has announced new immigration restrictions following the shooting of two National Guard members by a suspect who is an Afghan national.

The Trump administration is promising a stricter anti-immigration agenda after an Afghan national was being charged in the shooting of two National Guard members.

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of launching overnight strikes in three eastern provinces, killing 10 civilians.

Pakistan’s interior minister says Afghan nationals carried out two fatal suicide attacks this week, one targeting a cadet college near the Afghan border and the other outside a court in the capital, Islamabad.

Pakistan’s prime minister has offered talks to Afghanistan’s Taliban government in a renewed peace overture.

Pakistani security forces have killed 20 Pakistani Taliban insurgents in raids on hideouts in the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.

Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Istanbul have ended without agreement.

Pakistan’s Information Minister says ongoing talks with Afghanistan in Istanbul have hit a deadlock despite the mediation of Turkey and Qatari officials.

Survivors of a powerful earthquake in northern Afghanistan are digging through the rubble of their homes after spending a bitterly cold night outdoors.

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake has shaken northern Afghanistan, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others.

Pakistan has partially reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan, allowing thousands of stranded Afghan refugees to return home.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says Islamabad does not seek further escalation of hostilities with Afghanistan but expects the country’s Taliban rulers to address its security concerns by taking action against militants operating from Afghan soil.

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country once more in an international soccer tournament.

Officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan say delegations are going to Turkey for a second round of crisis talks.

Afghanistan and Pakistan say they will respect a ceasefire mediated by Qatar and Turkey.

Qatar says Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says Pakistan carried out two drone strikes on Kabul the day before.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have announced a ceasefire following days of the deadliest clashes in years that killed dozens of people on both sides of the border.

Pakistan's state-run media say clashes have erupted between Pakistani and Afghan forces in a remote border region.

Officials say the closure of border crossings for bilateral trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan has extended into a second day after deadly weekend clashes spiked tensions.

Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace.

The Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing Kabul and a market in eastern Afghanistan.

India is upgrading its technical mission in Kabul to a full embassy, according to India's foreign minister.

The Taliban government has rejected reports of a nationwide internet ban in Afghanistan, saying old fiber optic cables are worn out and being replaced.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan is urging the Taliban government to immediately restore nationwide internet and telecommunications access.

The Taliban have freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison.

The Taliban government has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s call to retake Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

A British couple held in Afghanistan for more than seven months on undisclosed charges have arrived back in the U.K. after being released by the Taliban.

The Taliban have released a British couple held in Afghanistan for over seven months on undisclosed charges.

President Donald Trump has suggested he's working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

A Taliban crackdown to “prevent immorality” is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fiber-optic internet after the country’s leader imposed a complete ban on the technology.

The Taliban says that they've reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan.

The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly half a million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

An initial United Nations assessment of the impact of Afghanistan’s recent deadly earthquake has found that 5,230 homes were destroyed and 672 were damaged in 49 villages — but the U.N. hasn’t been able to get to the vast majority of the remote villages.

A Taliban government spokesman says the death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan has risen to 2,205.

Aid agencies say the international community must increase funding to Afghanistan.

The Taliban say a major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has killed over 1,400 people and injured more than 3,000.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has shaken eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.

President Donald Trump has marked the fourth anniversary of a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Afghanistan withdrawal by signing a proclamation honoring them.

The new painting at the VFW Post 76 aims to raise awareness for veterans suffering from burn pit exposure.

A bus crash in northwestern Afghanistan has killed at least 79 people, including 19 children.

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times humiliating.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have celebrated the fourth anniversary of their return to power.

The Taliban say helicopters will shower Kabul with flowers to celebrate the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan.

The independent U_N_ investigator on human rights in Afghanistan says its Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity."

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The World Food Program says Afghanistan is having its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition.

Officials say Pakistan has resumed the forced deportation of Afghan refugees after the federal government declined to extend a key deadline for their stay.

Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. are no longer protected from deportation after a federal appeals court refused to postpone the Trump administration’s decision to end their legal status.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code.

British media reports say a major data leak has exposed the identities of U.K. spies and special forces.

Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the U.K. after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the Taliban could target them.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders.

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse their worsening oppression of women and girls and eliminate all terrorist organizations.

Group and solo travelers are trickling into Afghanistan by plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles.

As Israeli strikes kill top Iranian generals, take out air defenses and damage nuclear sites, many wonder if President Donald Trump will deepen U.S. involvement in the conflict.

A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they can and leave forever.

Mohammad Sharafoddin, his wife and young son managed to make it out of Afghanistan as refugees nine years ago, at one point walking 36 hours over mountain passes.

The top Taliban leader has slammed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Afghans, calling the United States an “oppressor.”.

The new travel ban on citizens of 12 countries that restricted access to people from seven others includes some exceptions.

The Trump administration’s travel ban on people from Afghanistan is sending ripples of concern across the Afghan community and their supporters.

President Donald Trump is again banning people from countries his administration deems dangerous from coming to America.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered another review of the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed American troops and Afghans.

The Trump administration’s suspension of the federal refugee program has upended the lives of many Afghans who worked with the United States during wartime.

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, among the numerous immigration-related executive orders he signed was one suspending the country’s refugee program.

Pakistan’s military says its security forces overnight have killed 54 militants who attempted to cross into the country from neighboring Afghanistan.

Russia’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were designated as a terrorist group more than two decades ago.

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan.