Munir has emerged as a key intermediary in negotiations aimed at preventing renewed conflict with Iran, placing Pakistan — ...

Iran can no longer take access to the Persian Gulf for granted and may hedge its trade to overland routes through Afghanistan.

In the rugged geography of the Hindu Kush, isolation has long been a tool of survival. But for the Taliban-led administration in early 2026, that isolation has become a trap. Afghanistan currently ...

Much of the Russian recruiting effort is focused on Iran's capital Tehran and Mashhad, a city near the Afghanistan border ...

Pakistan-Iran ties have been plagued by wider geopolitical wrangling in the region for decades. Can Prime Minister Imran Khan ...

Pakistan’s mediator role faces scrutiny after a report claimed Iran parked military aircraft at Nur Khan Air Base during the US-Iran conflict.

With Gulf states under fire, Islamabad steps into unlikely role of interlocutor between US, Iranian officials in apparent bid to stem rising oil prices and preserve domestic calm ...

Among the military hardware that was sent to Pakistan was an Iranian Air Force RC-130, a reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering variant of the Lockheed-produced C-130 Hercules tactical transport ai ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks to Mehrzad Boroujerdi of the Missouri University of Science and Technology about the status of the Trump Administration's negotiations to end the war on Iran. We're ...

The war in Iran is choking off Afghanistan’s main economic lifeline and has forced at least 70,000 Afghan workers and students there back home to a nation embroiled in another conflict. The war in ...

US president announces exit from 'defective' international nuclear accord as Washington moves to reinstate sanctions against ...

Pakistan has emerged as an unexpected mediator, offering to help bring Washington and Tehran to the negotiating table as fears of a wider regional conflict escalate following U.S. and Israeli strikes ...