Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated in recent weeks, sparking fears of a full-blown Pakistan-Taliban war ...

but by years of civil war and a ten year war with the former Soviet Union when it invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The U.S. response during this time was a) to arm and train Afghan rebels fighting the ...

Afghanistan: the looming refugee crisis Tobias ... “Us pulling out will lead to a terrible civil war because there is nothing simple about this transition. The Northern Alliance as it was ...

Afghanistan is "heading towards civil war" as the UK prepares to withdraw its citizens, allies and troops, the defence secretary has said. Ben Wallace told BBC Breakfast that it was likely that ...

The Taliban are now reducing their over-reliance on Pakistan and exploring alliances and friendships beyond Islamabad ...

whose memories of Afghanistan's civil war of the early 1990s, or the harsh Taliban rule which followed, are only anecdotes told and retold by parents and grandparents. "They're the generation of ...

Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday about issues surrounding the end of the Afghanistan war. Thousands of ...

Pakistani leaders were once friends of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, cross-border violence has become alarmingly frequent.

American officials are wary as they try to persuade the rebels now in control in Syria to govern with an inclusive and ...

Many of their members were former Mujahedeen fighters who had been trained in Pakistan during Afghanistan's civil war in the '80s and '90s. They came together with the aim of making Afghanistan an ...

Pakistan-Taliban war: Amid rising tensions with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, Pakistan is allegedly plotting to trigger a civil war in Afghanistan, a fear which has escalated after ISI chief ...