Afghanistan

A police officer and two civilians died and 23 people were injured in a bomb attack in strife-affected Balochistan province on Wednesday. The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the …

India has moved to the frontline of diplomacy to resolve the turbulent situation in Taliban ruled Afghanistan by joining Russia and Iran in a new Moscow-backed troika. Sources told India …

The fourth meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan will take place on November 16 with the participation of key regional countries interested in a peaceful Afghan settlement, …

India has delivered the 13th batch of medical assistance to Afghanistan which was handed over to authorities of the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul on Tuesday. In continuation with …

A special exercise of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) armed forces which kicked off in the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan on Monday features a new formation to deal …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again spotlighted the presence of terrorist and extremist groups in Afghanistan which could destabilise the situation in neighbouring countries. Addressing the heads of security …

The Taliban interim government in Afghanistan is making a fresh bid to seek India’s lucrative energy market by trying to revive the Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India (TAPI) gas pipeline. In …

India continues to work closely with the Central Asian countries in a bid to list its counter-terrorism priorities and concerns, particularly in the South Asia region. Earlier this week, India …

A deadly suicide bombing at a mosque killed prominent cleric, signalling the escalation of a blood feud between the Taliban and the Islamic State in Afghanistan. The twin blasts that …

India has already sent 40,000 metric tonnes of wheat and joined Afghanistan’s war against Covid-19 by dispatching 32 tonnes of medicines to its northern neighbour, which is going through a …

As the Islamic State was on a rampage in Afghanistan at the end of  July, Syria’s semi-autonomous Kurdish administration was handing over to authorities of Tajikistan the custody of 146 …

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday personally thanked his counterpart from Russia for detaining a suicide bomber of the Islamic State who was planning to carry out a terrorist attack …

<p> <strong>Shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cited that India can realise its full potential if it remains rooted in its civilizational DNA, Russian President Vladimir Putin too has pointed …

<p> Earlier this week, a physically handicapped suicide bomber, who had hidden explosives in his prosthetic leg killed a top cleric in Kabul. The killing of Maulavi Rahimullah Haqqani at …

<p> Earlier this week, a physically handicapped suicide bomber, who had hidden explosives in his prosthetic leg killed a top cleric in Kabul. The killing of Maulavi Rahimullah Haqqani at …

<p> <strong>India has expressed surprise that the UN Secretary-General's latest report on the threat posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Da'esh, to international …

<p> <strong>It could well seem like a Bollywood blockbuster.</strong></p> <p> <strong>For the last one year—since the collapse of the government in Afghanistan on August 15 — the going has been …

<p> Justice has been delivered! The "mastermind" of attacks against Americans for decades is “no more”.  President Joe Biden’s announcement following the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on 31 …

<p> <strong>The intention was noble. And the event was much needed. An international conference on Afghanistan was also perhaps long overdue. The Ukraine war since the end of February has …

<p> The US appears to have used the deadly Hellfire R9X, a warhead-less missile equipped with six razor-like blades that slice through the target  without exploding, to kill notorious Al-Qaeda …

<p> Afghan cadets who had been stranded in India after the Taliban took over the country last year have safely returned to Kabul.</p> <p> The return of the cadets followed …