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The remains of a building damaged in a Pakistani airstrike at a village in the Tsamkani district of Afghanistan's Paktia province on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 29, 2026
Pakistan strikes kill 29 militants in new Afghan border flare-up
Violence on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has intensified in the last month following a brief ceasefire over the Eid holiday in March.
Taliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul in the Afghan capital on Aug. 15, 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2026
The toll on Afghanistan of five years of Taliban rule
Afghans are asking the world: How long and to what extent must the Taliban continue internal repression and support for terrorism before the world recognizes the threat?
Afghan families at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar, in 2021. Once promised a move to the United States, Afghan refugees who helped U.S. forces say they face ‘bad or worse’ options: resettlement in Congo or returning to live under the Taliban where their lives would be in danger.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2026
Caught between wars, Afghan allies of U.S. trapped in Qatar without safe exit
The Afghans were evacuated due to their ties to the U.S. and fear of reprisals by the Taliban authorities, but processing has been halted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Young Afghan evacuees play soccer in a residential compound in Doha, Qatar. The U.S. is offering Afghan refugees at a camp in the country the choice to emigrate to Congo or returning to their Taliban-ruled homeland, an activist has said.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 22, 2026
U.S. tells Afghans to choose Taliban-run homeland or Congo, activist says
More than 1,100 Afghans have been in limbo in a refugee processing camp in Qatar after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a halt to a resettlement program.
Former member of Australia's elite Special Air Service regiment Ben Roberts-Smith leaves Federal Court in Sydney on May 1, 2025. Police arrested Roberts-Smith, one of Australia's most-decorated soldiers, for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 7, 2026
Australia’s most decorated soldier charged with alleged war crimes
The man, whom police identified as a 47-year-old former Australian Defence Force member and court records ​named as Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested at Sydney Airport.
Taliban officials and Afghan Red Crescent Society volunteers offer funeral prayers for victims of a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center, during a mass burial ceremony at the Badam Bagh Hilltop in Kabul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 19, 2026
Pakistan and Afghanistan announce Eid ‘pause’ in hostilities
The halt in fighting came after the deadliest strike in their escalating conflict killed hundreds in Kabul earlier this week.
A member of the Taliban's security forces inspects the site of a drug rehabilitation center, after it was hit by a Pakistani airstrike, in Kabul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 18, 2026
Afghan authorities say around 400 killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul rehab center
The two sides have been in conflict for months, with Islamabad accusing its neighbor of harboring Islamist extremists who have mounted deadly cross-border attacks on its territory.
Taliban security personnel carry a body on a blanket at the site of a damaged building after Pakistani airstrikes allegedly hit the Secondary Rehabilitation Services Center in Kabul on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 17, 2026
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of deadly airstrike on drug rehab center in Kabul
Islamabad has struck Kabul several times in recent weeks following claims Afghanistan’s Taliban government has harbored extremists who have carried out attacks across the border.
Afghan women walk toward a safer place on Sept. 3 after their house was damaged following a deadly magnitude 6 earthquake in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Women in the country have to cover up when outside the home, with only their hands and eyes visible.
WORLD / Society
Mar 10, 2026
Rituals of resilience: How Afghan women stay sane in their ‘cage’
From singing to going up into the mountains to scream, five Afghan women talked about how they cope with their lives tightly controlled by Taliban government rules.
U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 4, 2026
Britain to bar study visas for four nations and halt Afghan work visas
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has sought to show it is tightening immigration as the populist Reform U.K. party gains ground in opinion polls.
A Taliban service member stands guard as Afghan Muslim devotees offer prayers during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan along a road in Kabul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 2, 2026
Blasts in Kabul as Afghan government says it is responding to Pakistani attacks
Months of cross-border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan have flared again since Afghanistan recently launched an offensive along the frontier.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid gestures during a news conference, following an escalation in cross-border tensions with Pakistan, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Friday.
WORLD
Feb 28, 2026
Afghan Taliban open to talks after Pakistan bombs Kabul and Kandahar
The latest violence erupted after Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghan territory last weekend triggered Afghan retaliatory attacks along the border on Thursday.
A wounded Afghan woman receives treatment at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday after an overnight Pakistani mortar shell hit a camp for people returning from Pakistan. Islamabad’s defense minister has declared that the neighbors are at “open war.”
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 27, 2026
Pakistan bombs Kabul in ‘open war’ on Afghanistan’s Taliban government
Relations between the neighbors have plunged since deadly fighting in October that killed more than 70 people on both sides.
Afghan relatives and mourners surround the body of a victim, killed in an overnight Pakistani air strike, during a mass burial ceremony in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 22, 2026
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban say Pakistan strikes kill and injure dozens
The strikes bring a sharp ​escalation in tension just days after Kabul released three Pakistani soldiers in a Saudi-mediated move to smoothe relations.
An Afghan man buys medicine at a pharmacy in Kabul on Feb. 9.
WORLD
Feb 17, 2026
Bitter pill: Taliban government shakes up Afghan medicine market
A decision to overhaul its medicine market was meant to improve quality and boost domestic production, but industry specialists say the changes have led to a litany of problems.
Police officers inspect a site after militant attacks in Quetta, Pakistan, on Feb. 1.
WORLD
Feb 12, 2026
Female suicide bombers and new weapons give boost to insurgents in Pakistan
The ⁠participation of women amplifies a movement ​that Pakistan’s military says has access to a massive cache of U.S. weapons left behind ​in Afghanistan.
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, addresses the media in the Oval Office on Sept. 5, the day he signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2026
Trump has killed American deterrence
Trump has shown countless times that he cannot keep promises. His reversals on TikTok, tariffs and Ukraine demonstrate that his commitments have the lifespan of a mayfly.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media in the briefing room of No. 9 Downing St. in central London on Jan. 19.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 25, 2026
Trump hails U.K. troops’ sacrifice after backlash over NATO remark
Donald Trump stopped short of making a full apology, but said that British forces are “second to none.”
U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speak during a news conference at Chequers last September in Aylesbury, England.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 24, 2026
U.K. PM slams Trump for saying NATO troops avoided Afghan front line
Trump appeared unaware that 457 British soldiers were among NATO troops who died during the conflict in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks.
A woman checks her phone on a hill in Tehran on Oct. 2, 2025. Iran was plunged into a nationwide internet blackout on Jan. 8.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 14, 2026
The countries wielding internet blackouts to muzzle dissent
Iran’s move to cut internet access during ongoing mass protests, along with Uganda’s Tuesday ahead of controversial elections, are just the latest examples of the tactic.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Why is the yen so weak and what can Japan do about it?
Japan spent ¥11.7 trillion ($73 billion) between late April and late May to prop up the weak yen.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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