PESHAWAR: Writers have termed two newly-published Pashto poetry collections as trendsetters owing to their style of expression and strong message. The book-launch event was arranged under the umbrella ...

Despite an injection of more than $260 million in Australian aid, the situation for women in Afghanistan remains 'bleak'. When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, millions of ...

The January 19 suicide bomb attack on a restaurant in Kabul that killed seven people is the latest in an a series of attacks on Chinese citizens and interests in Afghanistan, a country that has become ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Friday denounced as "insulting" Donald Trump's claim that British troops avoided the front line in Afghanistan, amid widespread anger at the US president's remarks. In ...

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

President Trump suggested US allies in NATO were "off the front lines" during the war in Afghanistan. London has strongly opposed the suggestion, which comes amid tensions between the US and some NATO ...

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An explosion has torn through a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan’s capital, killing a Chinese national and six Afghans and injuring several ⁠others including ...

After anger at claim alliance’s troops ‘stayed off frontlines’, US president says British forces are ‘great and very brave’ Donald Trump has said UK soldiers who fought in Afghanistan were “among the ...

Poet’s sixth collection explores the destruction of the natural world, with a perspective shaped by her upbringing in rural Canada The Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize ...

US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” baselessly claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” ...

KABUL, Jan 20 - In the dull glow of a single bulb lighting their tent on the outskirts of Kabul, Samiullah and his wife Bibi Rehana sit down to dry bread and tea, their only meal of the day, ...