Category: International

MURIDKE, Pakistan — At least five people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday as police and Rangers launched a fierce crackdown on supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) marching toward Islamabad. Videos flooding social media showed scenes of burning vehicles, shattered glass, and bodies strewn across the Grand Trunk Road’s median. Authorities say the […]

KABUL — Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has refused entry visas to several senior Pakistani officials, including Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif and Intelligence Chief Asim Malik, amid a sharp escalation in tensions over alleged airspace violations, according to TOLOnews. According to sources within the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Islamabad had requested permission for a high-level delegation […]

India and Canada Reset Ties After Year of Strain NEW DELHI — India and Canada have taken decisive steps to restore diplomatic relations that collapsed after the 2023 killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada strained one of the world’s most important diaspora ties, according to BBC News. Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand, on […]

ISLAMABAD / KABUL — Heavy border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has left scores dead on both sides, marking one of the sharpest escalations since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul three years ago, according to Al Jazeera News. Pakistan’s military said on Sunday it had killed more than 200 Afghan fighters, while the […]

TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered one of the most detailed explanations yet of Tehran’s current foreign policy posture, addressing nuclear talks, relations with the West, and the situation in Gaza during a televised interview Saturday night, according to Mehr News Agency. Araghchi reiterated Iran’s support for an immediate end to the Gaza […]

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — The people of Gaza City returned this weekend to a landscape of ruin and silence. Streets once filled with life now lie buried beneath mountains of shattered concrete and twisted steel, a grim reminder of two years of war. Amid the desolation, the air is heavy with uncertainty and the […]

Latest on Pakistan–Afghanistan Border Clashes: 25 Afghan Posts Seized, Crossings Closed in EscalationIn a dramatic escalation along the Afghanistan–Pakistan frontier, Kabul and Islamabad have traded sharply diverging versions of last night’s ferocious clashes, each accusing the other of provocative aggression, according to Al Jazeera News. According to officials from the Taliban government in Kabul, Afghan […]

WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday began laying off thousands of federal employees, citing the ongoing government shutdown as the reason, while President Donald Trump placed the blame squarely on Democrats. The move escalates the standoff in a shutdown that entered its tenth day, affecting millions of Americans and rattling federal agencies nationwide, according […]

No Survivors Expected After Tennessee Munitions Plant Explosion BUCKSNORT, Tennessee — Authorities say no survivors are expected to be found after a massive explosion ripped through a munitions plant in rural Tennessee on Friday, leaving 18 people unaccounted for and an entire community in mourning, according to BBC News. The blast occurred at the Accurate […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has reignited his trade war with Beijing, announcing sweeping new 100 percent tariffs on Chinese goods and threatening to cancel a long-anticipated meeting with President Xi Jinping later this month, according to Hurriyet Daily News. Trump said the fresh duties along with new export restrictions on “any and all […]