Explosives rigged to a parked motorcycle ignited near the gate of a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least two people, including a child, and wounding several others, ...

Iran has found itself boxed in by a huge US armada, but could find support from an unlikely ally in Afghanistan.

A new penal code has been published by Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, which will legalise acts of physical punishment against women.

Global outrage is mounting after reports that Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban authorities have introduced a new penal code widely criticised for weakening protections for women and children.The new ...

The Torkham border crossing, a vital lifeline for trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been shut to all movement and commercial activity for more than four months, since mid-October last ...

The Taliban’s governance remains deeply controversial. Since returning to power in 2021, the group has imposed sweeping restrictions on women and girls and enforcing strict social rules.

Mujahid clarified that the Taliban would show sympathy and possibly cooperate with Iran if requested, but the group is not ...

Federal policy changes and heated rhetoric have added to pressures on Afghan immigrants plunged into the U.S.'s vastly ...

Returns have strained resources in a country that was already struggling to cope with a weak economy and the effects of a ...

Afghanistan’s brutal Taliban regime operates a squalid prison that’s the “closest thing to hell,” according to an elderly ...

When Said Noor, a US Army veteran, picked up a phone call on December 2, he immediately knew something was wrong.