WASHINGTON: President Biden’s administration has tightened the policy pertaining to counterterrorism drone strikes, US media reports said. The policy requires President’s approval before a suspected terrorist is added to a list of those who can be targeted in a return to a more centralized ...

KABUL – Weeks after Pakistan denied the United States used its airspace to carry out a drone strike inside Afghanistan, the Taliban’s acting defence minister said Pakistan had allowed American drones to use its airspace to access Afghanistan. Addressing a news conference in Kabul on Sunday, ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Sunday termed the accusations made by Afghanistan’s acting Defence Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob “conjectural allegations”. The Taliban’s acting defence minister said Pakistan had allowed American drones to use its airspace to access Afghanistan. “In the ...

Members of the United Nations Security Council remained divided Monday over whether to exempt some of Afghanistan link Taliban link officials link from a travel link ban link, diplomatic sources said. Under a 2011 Security Council resolution, 135 Taliban link leaders are subject to a ...

AFGHANISTAN/ BAZARAK: A year since returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban are a stronger military force than ever, but threats to their rule do exist. To tighten their grip, the Taliban have poured thousands of fighters into the Panshjir Valley, home to the only conventional military ...

The US military said Wednesday it carried out three air strikes north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, killing four fighters from the Al-Shabaab Islamist group. The strikes took place Tuesday in Beledweyne, 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Mogadishu, after militants from the group with links to ...

Three senior commanders of the Pakistani Taliban militant group have been killed in a blast in eastern Afghanistan, according to local news outlets. Abdul Wali, also known as Omar Khalid Khorasani, was travelling with Hafiz Dawlat and Mufti Hassan in Afghanistan link Paktika province on the ...

*ISLAMABAD: Former Information Minister and PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday asked the concerned ministries to clarify if Pakistani airspace was used for conducting a drone strike in Afghanistan that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. * In a message from his Twitter handle, Fawad ...

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan military has rejected the speculations that country’s land or airspace was used in the US drone strike that killed top al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan last week. Al-Zawahiri’s killing served biggest blow to the outlawed group since its founder Osama ...

WASHINGTON – US media reports suggest the American drone that reportedly killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in the Afghan capital Kabul was flown from an airbase in Kyrgyzstan. The reports came amid heightened media speculations that the drone strike in Afghanistan was carried out from ...