When Said Noor, a US Army veteran, picked up a phone call on December 2, he immediately knew something was wrong.

In the sienna-colored curves of Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, one of the most rugged and lawless regions in the world, a cavernous, grooved crater gouged out from a hillside shines in the winter ...

The Taliban has also informed mediators, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, alleging that Pakistan violated existing understandings.

U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan said Monday that eight civilians were killed when coalition aircraft bombed a compound not knowing that the suspected Taliban militants they were targeting had taken ...