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

No s***, there I was, to use the old soldiers’ parlance, at the park, back in my old hometown in Iowa, joyously celebrating a ...

A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare ...

Two top United Nations officials are urging Western nations to engage with Afghanistan to prevent the country from sliding ...

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis ...

Prince Harry evidently enjoys life in California, but the United Kingdom and its wayward royal son need each other. The UK ...

In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam, the key character, a teenage girl, is married off to a shoemaker, Rasheed, in Kabul. Weeks after she moved to a new city, her husband buys her a ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s military said on Wednesday it shot down four drones launched by the Afghan Taliban into Balochistan, hours after Afghanistan’s defence ministry claimed its air force ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban says they have launched air strikes on Pakistani territory, as Islamabad said its forces had intercepted four rudimentary drones in the southern province of Balochistan. The ...

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, India’s 15-year-old cricket sensation, might have to wait a while longer to make his senior international debut.

Pakistan says strikes were aimed at a terrorist group while Taliban condemn ‘cowardly act of aggression’ Pakistani airstrikes in three eastern provinces of Afghanistan killed 36 civilians and wounded ...

A pilot in the Afghan Air Force, he was recruited for the Soviet space program. His 1988 flight took place as the Soviets were fighting a war in his country. By Richard Sandomir Abdul Ahad Momand, ...