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The Taliban and ISIS are both Islamist extremist organizations, both with similar interests. Despite both belonging to extreme branches of Islam and seeking to establish authoritarian states that ...

How the "Great Game" tensions between Russia and Britain over the war-torn region led to the declaration of war between Pakistan and Afghanistan - and it could get far worse ...

Rolling out his new strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia on August 21, 2017, Trump shared three core American interests. The first was an “honourable and enduring outcome” of the war in Afghanistan ...

Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further ...

Pakistan previously nurtured the Taliban’s senior ranks, training and financing the Islamist group through its intelligence services and sheltering them during the 20-year Nato occupation of ...

After years of rising tensions, Pakistan and the Taliban are now locked in what officials call an “open war.” Border clashes, ...

The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting ...

Cross-border clashes between the two countries intensified on February 26, two days before US, Israel attacked Iran.

Iran has little interest in sponsoring a terrorist group that does not act in its interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Islamic Republic, the author argues, has good reason to support such ...