Afghanistan

Will Donald Trump's Hamas disarmament endgame make Israel safer? - analysis

The great game has begun for Israel, Hamas, the US, Qatar, Turkey, and others to try to reframe the future of Gaza conflict and the Middle East.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
US President Donald Trump speaks during a reception with business leaders, at the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026.
Ambulances rush along a road towards the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, on October 15, 2025; illustrative.

Blast kills seven at Chinese-run restaurant in Afghan capital, Islamic State claims responsibility

The noodle restaurant was jointly run by a Chinese Muslim, Abdul Majid, his wife, and an Afghan partner, Abdul Jabbar Mahmood, and served the Chinese Muslim community, a police spokesperson said.

|ByREUTERS, JAMES GENN
Pakistani soldiers in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan September 2, 2025.

Seven Pakistani police officers killed in targeted bomb attack, no group claims responsibility

Police in the northwestern Tank district said that five police personnel were killed on the spot after the remote-controlled bomb went off, while two others had died in the hospital.

|ByREUTERS
An illustration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of a backdrop of Iranian flags flying amid fire from an Israeli strike on Sharan Oil depot, Tehran.

Iranians 'have fallen in love with Netanyahu,' Tehran resident tells KAN - report

An Iranian protester told KAN Reshet Bet that many Iranians admire Netanyahu and Israeli strikes, while blaming economic collapse, repression, and inflation for the unrest.

|ByJAMES GENN

Guardian forced Afghan man into hiding after using his picture in LGBT-related article - lawsuit

The man's lawyer claimed, “He was forced to go into hiding due to the extremists and homophobic views that are prevalent in the Iranian and Afghan community."

MAY 14, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) is pictured from the Dogharoun border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran August 29, 2021.

Pakistan security forces kill 54 Afghan-based terrorists in major border operation

A significant cache of arms, ammunition, and explosives was recovered from the scene.

APRIL 28, 2025ByARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
Taliban fighters check on injured comrades at the entrance of the emergency hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan November 2, 2021

America's rushed Afghan pullout allowed Taliban to traffic US weapons to Houthis - report

Sources claim that half the weapons left behind by the US have been lost, sold or smuggled.

APRIL 18, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Taliban walk in front of a military airplane a day after the U.S. troops withdrawal from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 31, 2021.

Afghan national pleads guitly to plotting 'ISIS-inspired' US election-day terror attack

Abdullah Haji Zada, 18, and Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, were arrested and charged with attempting to carry out an ISIS-inspired plot during the 2024 US Presidential Election.

APRIL 18, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ISIS fighters.

Taliban release detained US citizen Faye Hall

Faye Hall was received at the Qatari embassy in Kabul and confirmed to be in good health after undergoing a series of medical checks.

MARCH 29, 2025ByREUTERS
Faye Hall, who has been released from Taliban custody and is with Qatari diplomats, is seen in Kabul, Afghanistan March 29, 2025.

‘With frail bodies and empty stomachs’: Afghan children risk lives at Torkham border

Experts warn that poverty and desperation are forcing young children into cross-border smuggling, exposing them to physical danger and abuse.

MARCH 28, 2025ByARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
At the Torkham border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Afghan girls weave through parked trucks, carrying contraband items.

The US must let Iranians choose their own fate, not dictate their future - opinion

US think tanks weaken the real resistance inside Iran; Pahlavi at Israeli-American Council summit: Iranians seek a strategic partnership, not Western intervention.

MARCH 26, 2025ByAIDIN PANAHI
A woman poses next to an Iranian flag and photo of the Persian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, during a protest on the day of the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany February 17, 2023.

Trump: ‘We were going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan but because of China’

The US president says Bagram Air Base is a critical asset for countering China, as experts debate the feasibility of reclaiming abandoned US military equipment in Afghanistan.

MARCH 5, 2025ByARSHAD MEHMOUD/THE MEDIA LINE
A Taliban soldier enters a helicopter at Bagram Air Base in Parwan, Afghanistan, September 23, 2021. Picture taken September 23, 2021.

ISIS-K member charged with 2021 bombing, US State Dept. says

Sharifullah is expected to appear in the Eastern District of Virginia later today, and, if convicted, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

MARCH 5, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ISIS militants

Afghan national confesses to Munich car ramming that injured 36, prosecutor says

At least 36 people including a toddler were hurt on Thursday when the 24-year-old man plowed into demonstrators gathered in the city center.

FEBRUARY 14, 2025ByREUTERS
Firefighters work at the scene where a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd, in what the Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder said was probably an attack, in Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025.