ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Friday clarified that the current ceasefire with Afghanistan is not a “traditional” agreement between two states at war but is contingent on the cessation of terrorist attacks emanating from Afghan soil.

In a dramatic escalation along the Afghan border, Pakistani security forces conducted two coordinated raids, killing 23 fighters in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The operations targeted militants linked to the Pakistan Taliban (TTP) and came amid rising tensions with Afghanistan and India.

The U.S. agency overseeing immigration made the announcement after an Afghan man shot two National Guard troops near the White House.

The greater Sacramento area is home to one of the nation's largest Afghan refugee communities, now impacted by the freeze on immigration from Afghanistan.

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times humiliating.The bipartisan Afghanistan War Commission aims ...