For nearly 18 years, Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban movement largely refrained from attacking the country’s predominately Shi’ite Hazara minority. But the Taliban recently began targeting ...

A new movement demanding security for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority is transforming into a nationalist struggle with long-term consequences for the country’s politics, security, society, and ...

Hopes for ending four decades of war in Afghanistan are high this week after a Loya Jirga or grand assembly of more than 3,000 political elites, tribal leaders, clerics, and activists approved the ...

Leaders of the Russia- and China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have urged the world to unfreeze Afghanistan's assets and boost assistance to the war-torn nation as it teeters on the ...

Years ago, Pakistan declared victory against the Taliban after large-scale military operations in a northwestern mountainous region. But the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the formal name of the ...

Officials in Dushanbe say they've received reports that Tajik militants who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan are now making plans to cross the border into Tajikistan. An official at ...

DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan has awarded posthumously two former Afghan political figures, Ahmad Shah Masud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, with the country's highest honor, the Order of Ismoili Somoni. Tajik ...

The mountainous province of Badakhshan in northeastern Afghanistan evaded Taliban rule when the hard-line Islamist movement dominated the rest of the country in the 1990s. Today, however, the Taliban ...

The final straw for Orangi Town slum resident Sultana Javed was when her young daughter fell into the soak pit where the family disposed of their waste. Like many families living without proper ...

In northwestern Pakistan, marriages are usually arranged by parents and families. The lavish weddings are a time of joy and celebration for the families, friends and relatives of the bride and the ...

ASADABAD, Afghanistan -- Illegal mining of precious stones in an eastern Afghan province is depriving its impoverished residents of resources and their country of much-needed revenue. Residents of ...

Abdul Ghani Khan (1914-1996), a master poet, sculptor and painter, was inspired by the Impressionists but developed his own style. He mostly concentrated on painting the human face because "of the ...