Since 2021, the Taliban has encouraged madrasa schools, raising concerns about religious indoctrination and the spread of ...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- Thousands of men dance to the beat of drums as a Pashtun community in northwestern Pakistan celebrates the arrival of the new year and spring. They say that Norouz, the ...

The Taliban have placed a "Greater Afghanistan" map, depicting parts of Pakistan as Afghan territory, on Pashto poet ...

In a recent debate leading up to the presidential elections here, the first question was not about terrorism, or violence, or even opium. It was about how candidates viewed a jagged line casually ...

* More recruits needed from Taliban heartlands * Police drop-out rates stand at 25 percent By David Brunnstrom BRUSSELS, March 3 (Reuters) - High drop-out and low recruitment rates have hampered NATO ...

By Fatima Baloch When the Afghan Taliban captured Kabul on August 15, 2021, Pakistan celebrated. The Prime Minister, military ...

We’re just back from some travel in Ohio to see family, friends and even a couple of doctors. One of our hotels was serviced by porters who were refugees from Afghanistan. I was using a cane because ...

Afghanistan has never bowed down to anyone. Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States could defeat it. This becomes even ...

As the saw goes, never get into a war with a people who live in a half-hour time zone. The reference is usually to Afghanistan, a country no one has ever been able to subdue, for long at least. And it ...

The Taliban is largely made up of an ethnic group called the Pashtuns. They are the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan, and also have a significant presence in northwest Pakistan. NPR's John Burnett ...

The Afghan province of Uruzgan, north of Kandahar, is brutal territory. Its villages have been racked by decades of war, and the summer heat can reach an inhospitable 120[degrees]. A few weeks ago, ...

There are several issues with enumerating Afghanistan’s population, starting with the fact that there hasn’t been an actual census in over four decades. How many people live in Afghanistan? It turns ...