Islamabad says it hit militant infrastructure in southern Afghanistan after alleged Taliban-linked drone attacks, deepening a rapidly worsening standoff along the border.

Pakistan targeted Taliban installations and "terrorist hideouts" in Afghanistan's Kandahar during overnight strikes, the Pakistan Information Minister said in a post on X on

An airstrike has killed 400 people and injured 250 after it struck a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Monday. Taliban-led Afghanistan has blamed Pakistan for the attack, a claim Islamabad denies.

Sola Mahfouz was threatened with acid at 11 for attending school in Kandahar, taught herself mathematics and physics in secret from the age of 16, crossed into Pakistan to sit the SAT, and is now a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi in a phone call that disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistan should be resolved through

Pakistan’s president says Afghanistan’s Taliban government has crossed a red line by launching drones into Pakistan, and Pakistan has reportedly answered with airstrikes

Women and children were among those killed in the attacks, according to the Taliban.