It was a split second decision. Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya found themselves and their five children on Aug. 19 in a chaotic crowd outside the gates of the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when a US soldier, from over the tall fence, asked if they needed help.

The supreme leader of the Taliban yesterday warned against the danger of turncoats and infiltrators in the movement that has taken charge of Afghanistan.

Myanmar’s ruling military yesterday stood by its decision to deny a Southeast Asian envoy access to detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, resisting growing international pressure to comply with a regional peace plan agreed in April.

A Taliban military commander was killed when his men responded to an Islamic State suicide bomb and gun attack on a hospital in the Afghan capital, officials said Wednesday.

India’s National Investigation Agency has arrested a suspected terrorist of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, an official said today.

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded yesterday in an attack on Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital which saw two heavy blasts followed up by gunmen assaulting the site in central Kabul, officials said.

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site in central Kabul, officials said.

An explosion rocked Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday apparently targeting civilians in front of a military hospital, a Taliban spokesman said.

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced

A hardline Pakistani Islamist group called off a protest march to the capital Islamabad yesterday after reaching a deal with the government, ending two weeks of clashes that left at least seven policemen dead and scores injured on both sides.

Taliban fighters shot dead two wedding guests who were listening to music, local officials and a witness said yesterday, forcing Afghanistan’s new government to insist such attacks are not authorised.

A Pakistani held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba told a sentencing jury how he was raped, beaten and

Myanmar troops on Friday shelled a restive western town, with an ensuing fire destroying dozens of houses, as well as the office of charity Save the Children, witnesses and local media reported.

The proscribed Islamist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) resumed its march from Gujranwala yesterday, with thousands of activists travelling in cars, buses and on foot continuing their journey towards Islamabad.

Thousands of demonstrators from a banned Pakistani Islamist group clashed with police yesterday, killing and wounding several people from both sides, police and the group said.

Women activists in Kabul yesterday held up signs that read “why is the world watching us die in silence?” protesting the

Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan.

Southeast Asian leaders sharply criticised Myanmar’s junta as a regional summit opened yesterday without a representative from the country, following its top general’s exclusion for ignoring a peace roadmap agreed six months ago.

"This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation unless we can step up our life-saving assistance," said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme.

Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Swedish and Pakistani ministers have warned.