Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have reached a boiling point, with fears of escalation to an all-out war after the Taliban deployed troops to the border in response to deadly strikes and rising hostilities.

Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s defense ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside Afghanistan.

The Afghan Taliban has launched a wave of artillery strikes against Pakistani checkpoints across the border, raising fears of war between the neighbouring countries.

The first cross-border strike inside Afghanistan since March came after a spate of attacks by the Pakistan Taliban.

Based on the statement issued by the Taliban defence ministry, attacks were conducted "beyond the hypothetical line", which is a term often used to describe Pakistan.

A Taliban government official says Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children.

At least 10 Taliban fighters were killed and five others wounded in a major attack on the group’s ministry of interior in Kabul on Saturday as tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan escalated. The attack,

At least seven to eight Taliban personnel were killed along the Durand Line in Upper Kurram district on Saturday after Afghan Taliban forces launched an attack on Pakistani border posts in the Ghozgarhi,

Eleven people were injured during an anti-terror operation in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The operation targeted militants linked to cross-border terrorism from Afghanistan.