Forced to live under the Taliban's strict patriarchal rules, Afghan families with no fathers or sons turn to girls to meet ...

This weekend, we’re thinking about the stories that we don’t often hear. An opera company that uplifts the voices of ...

The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It’s an age-old practice in this ...

ISLAMABAD: Security forces’ operations along the Pak-Afghan border in North and South Waziri­stan have killed multiple Afghan Taliban and destroyed several terrorist posts, security sources say.

Fear and panic have gripped the residents of Khyber district’s Landi Kotal as more mortar shells fired from Afghanistan side landed in different parts of the region. Residents in Landi Kotal said that ...

“As a 14-year-old, I was kicking away my worries for hours every day,” says Marzieh Hamidi. “I forgot the world when I was at the gym.” (Photo: Laura Sciacovelli) At 23, the Afghani-Iranian taekwondo ...

This blog is now closed, you can read our full report here Key events Pakistan’s defence minister declared an “open war” with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, in a major escalation between the ...

A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war. Mohammad IqbalCredit...Victor J. Blue for The New York ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's military killed at least 70 militants in strikes along the border with Afghanistan early Sunday, targeting what it described as hideouts of Pakistani militants it blamed for ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said they are preparing "an appropriate and calculated response" to Pakistani air strikes that killed at least 18 people in Nangarhar and Paktika provinces. Afghan ...