Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to temporarily suspend fighting during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, both countries announced days after dozens were killed at a Kabul drug rehabilitation hospital.

At the Emergency Hospital, dozens crowded around a thick book to check the names of the victims killed in an airstrike on a rehabilitation center. The U.N. says over a hundred people were killed.

Amid deepening conflict in the Middle East, the overlooked conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan is intensifying—and de-escalation looks very unlikely. On Tuesday, the Taliban regime accused Pakistan of bombing a hospital in Kabul,

ISLAMABAD, March 17 - Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India.

The statement came after Pakistan conducted “precision airstrikes” on alleged terrorist sites in Afghanistan, while Kabul accused it of striking a rehabilitation hospital and killing at least 400 peop

Pakistan says it struck militant hideouts in Afghanistan as cross-border fighting intensified and both sides traded blame.