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Intelligence report raises fears country could again become base for international terrorists

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are maintaining close ties with al-Qaeda as they consolidate control over the country, and their main military threat is coming from the ISIS extremist group and guerrilla-style attacks by former Afghan government security personnel, UN experts said in a new report. The experts said in the report…

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Indian foreign ministry officials are visiting Kabul for talks with the Taliban and international organizations involved in the distribution of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin

New Delhi commits to sending more foodgrains, medical aid

The final witness in the long-running Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case, a senior SAS member, says he never had any personal knowledge of how two Afghan men were killed in a Taliban compound.

Pakistan’s government has sent a 50-member delegation of tribal elders to Kabul to negotiate an extension of a truce with the Pakistani Taliban

L/Cpl Ryan Mackenzie, who killed himself at Yorkshire army base, was never same after tours of duty, inquest told