The Pakistani military is under strain on several fronts as it also faces the possibility of armed conflict with India.

Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth wants the US military to be more lethal as he guts civilian casualty programmes. There’s a ...

With tensions simmering, the militant attack has governments worried that India and Pakistan are once again on the brink of ...

Canadians and Americans have shared battlefields from Vimy Ridge to Kandahar. But they’re now bracing for an economic war ...

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The September 11th attacks in 2001 were quick to ignite America’s ‘Global War on Terrorism’. The main goal of this new ...

The Taliban leader said executions were part of Islam, days after four men were killed by gunfire in Afghanistan ... Kandahar province. God had commanded people to pray and to enforce his punishments, ...

It’s a devastating blow to aid programmes in Afghanistan, where a country ravaged by two decades of war and with its Taliban ... in the Takhta Pul district of Kandahar province (AFP via Getty ...

However, all execution orders are signed by the Taliban's reclusive Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, who lives in the movement's heartland of Kandahar ... chaos of a civil war following the ...

Law and order is central to the severe ideology of the Taliban, which emerged from the chaos of a civil war following the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989. Read more ...

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday ... who lives in the movement’s heartland of Kandahar. One of the most infamous images from their first rule depicted the 1999 execution ...