Pakistan’s military has struck deeper into Afghanistan as border fighting intensifies and both sides claimed to have inflicted heavy losses.

Taliban fighters look up while manning an armed pickup truck at the Afghan side of the Ghulam Khan crossing with Pakistan in Khost province, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Saifullah ...

The renewed violence between the neighboring countries stems from Pakistan’s accusations that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has harbored a militant group.

The airstrikes came hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions and follow months of worsening ...

Pakistan bombed major Afghan cities and declared "open war" after Afghanistan's Taliban rulers claimed an unprecedented aerial attack on Islamabad.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with ...

Pakistan struck Kabul and two other provinces hours after the Taliban launched cross-border attacks, in the latest escalation of violence between the two South Asian neighbors.

Pakistan bombed Taliban government targets in Afghanistan's major cities, a sharp escalation in clashes that the Pakistani defence minister described as "open war".

The strikes are the first time Islamabad has attacked the Taliban rather than militants allegedly backed by them, a stark rupture in ties between the Islamic neighbours.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have continued trading attacks after Pakistan bombed Afghanistan’s two biggest cities in the early ...

Pakistan's defense minister says there is "open war" on the Afghan Taliban government after tensions between the two countries flared.

FILE - U.S. Marine Corp Major Joshua Mast, center, talks with his attorneys during a break in the hearing of an ongoing custody battle over an Afghan orphan, March 30, 2023, at the Circuit Courthouse ...