This region is historically known as Bam-e Dunya, the Roof of the World. This phrase was originally translated from the ...

Every four years, the World Cup asks a specific group of people a question that has nothing to do with football. What does ...

China’s northeast region borders Russian Siberia and North Korea. It’s a cold, vast area known for its gritty industrial ...

Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.

A film adaptation of Azar Nafisi's critically praised, worldwide bestselling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is now in ...

Three Afghan organizations are present and selling their wares at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe this year.

Australia has given gentleman and scholar Ali Amiri refuge and citizenship, and he is forever grateful for the chance to ...

If Maiwand Banayee’s life had gone to plan, he’d be dead by now. As a teenager in Afghanistan, his goal in life was to become ...

Afghanistan's Taliban regime said Monday that 36 civilians, including women and children, were killed and more than 150 other people were wounded in strikes that Pakistan carried out along the border ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces Sunday carried out a ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, followed by "calibrated strikes" against militant hideouts and safe havens, ...

Five years ago, the 20-year American war in Afghanistan came to an inglorious end. In April 2021, the United States had begun its final withdrawal, with the goal of pulling out the 2,500 U.S. troops ...

When you're young, the world is a ferris wheel. That's a lyric from a 2007 song by the indie band Bright Eyes - but also true. Youth is that dizzying, almost magical period of life that floats above a ...