{"id":321497,"date":"2026-02-27T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/thats-a-war-afghanistan-expert-on-the-escalations-between-pakistan-and-the-taliban-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:01:51","slug":"thats-a-war-afghanistan-expert-on-the-escalations-between-pakistan-and-the-taliban-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/thats-a-war-afghanistan-expert-on-the-escalations-between-pakistan-and-the-taliban-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;That&#8217;s a war&#8217; Afghanistan expert on the escalations between Pakistan and the Taliban | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/m2e8ejvh-3M\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"'That's a war' Afghanistan expert on the escalations between Pakistan and the Taliban | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m2e8ejvh-3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The long running border disupte between Pakistan and Afghanistan is escalating. The Pakistani defense minister has spoken of &#8216;open war&#8217; between the neighbors. Pakistan&#8217;s military has released images of early morning airstrikes carried out in Afghanistan. Islamabad says dozens of Afghan Taliban fighters were killed. Pakistan struck Afghanistan&#8217;s capital, Kabul, and targets in the Kandahar and Paktia regions. The Taliban says its forces have hit back, sending drones against Pakistani military installations. Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring militants who launch attacks inside its territory. <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long running border disupte between Pakistan and Afghanistan is escalating. The Pakistani defense minister has spoken of &#8216;open war&#8217; between the neighbors. Pakistan&#8217;s military has released images of early morning airstrikes carried out in Afghanistan. Islamabad says dozens of Afghan Taliban fighters were killed. Pakistan struck Afghanistan&#8217;s capital, Kabul, and targets in the Kandahar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":321498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[130489,130861,132558],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-321497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-border","tag-long","tag-running"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;That&#039;s a war&#039; Afghanistan expert on the escalations between Pakistan and the Taliban | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch &#039;That&#039;s a war&#039; Afghanistan expert on the escalations between Pakistan and the Taliban | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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