Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country once more in an international soccer tournament.

Afghanistan and Pakistan said they had agreed a 48-hour ceasefire on Wednesday, following days of deadly clashes between the neighbors and former allies.

The latest round of peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan, held in Istanbul, collapsed without any breakthrough despite weeks of mediation by Saudi Arabia and the United States.

An interactive map of Afghanistan, Project Athena is an archive to which veterans can upload photos, chronicling the war as they lived it.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a new immediate ceasefire during talks in Doha, Qatar’s foreign ministry said early Sunday, following more than a week of deadly clashes which continued despite an earlier truce.

The tenuous peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan appears to have ended after days of escalating conflict that came to a head as Afghanistan accused its neighbor of carrying out airstrikes on its territory on Friday.

Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Istanbul have collapsed without agreement after three days of tense negotiations, leaving the border poised for renewed clashes. Negotiations, facilitated by Turkey and Qatar following deadly October border exchanges,

Pakistan has reportedly admitted to an agreement with an unnamed \"foreign country\" permitting drone strikes on Afghan soil during TTP assaults. This r