The Taliban's recent counterattacks and capturing of Pakistani military posts near the Durand Line besides killing 19 soldiers underscore the growing militancy threat in Pakistan's tribal regions.

Pakistan’s military did not immediately comment and it was not clear how deep inside Afghanistan the Pakistani jets flew. The airstrikes were the first since 2022, when Pakistan targeted ...

A Taliban security personnel keeps watch from a helicopter, two days after airstrikes by Pakistan in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province on December 26.

The airstrikes added to Taliban officials’ existing frustration with Pakistani authorities over a fence Pakistan is building along the country’s 1,600 mile border, known as the Durand line ...

In December 2024, Pakistan launched airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktika provinces, targeting suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan strongholds. The ruling Afghan Taliban’s aggressive rhetoric ...

Pakistan’s rare airstrikes inside Afghanistan over the weekend that killed more than 40 civilians show simmering tensions with the Taliban following the U.S. withdrawal from the region.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan's airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday, raising fears of further straining ...

The airstrikes killed at least 45 people, stoking fears of a violent resurgence of the conflict in eastern Afghanistan, ... known as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan or the Pakistani Taliban. ...

Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s defense ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside ...

Taliban & Pakistan's Counter Airstrikes May Reshape Volatile And Unpredictable Political Scenario In Both Fragile Countries In 2025 In a related development, Pakistan’s earlier airstrike against ...