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Karachi (AFP) - A gunbattle was raging Friday night inside a Pakistan police compound in the port city of Karachi, officials and witnesses said, just weeks after a bomb blast at a police mosque in the country's northwest killed over 80 officers.

Just over a year after fleeing the Taliban and seeking asylum in the UK, more than 150 Afghan refugees, including children, are facing more upheaval. In a matter of weeks, the Home Office has given dozens of refugee and asylum seeker families short notice that they will be moved from…

China and Iran have called on mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women's work and education

A rare public show of division is emerging in the ranks of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban

In a chilly classroom in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement, teenage girls pore over Islamic texts as the disembodied voice of a male scholar emanates from a loud speaker.

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Milan (AFP) - Forced to flee by the Taliban, Fatima Haidari now offers virtual tours of Afghanistan from her new home in Italy -- with the proceeds funding secret English classes for women there.

Veteran Egyptian Saif al-Adel viewed as formidable threat by western officials

An official says Taliban intelligence forces killed three Islamic State group militants and arrested one other in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital of Kabul