Topic - Afghanistan

The USIP is releasing its study just months after a United Nations report found that al Qaeda is operating training camps and safe houses in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, though it said the group that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes is now not capable of conducting external attacks.

After U.S. withdrawal, terror groups 'gaining strength' in Afghanistan, report warns →

Khursheed Anwar, a spokesman for the disaster management authority in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, said 21 people died there.

Lightning, rain kill 49 in Pakistan as authorities declare a state of emergency in the southwest →