Jamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top women’s-rights activists, credits her success to having had polio as a child. Born in 1976 with a crooked leg that her family blamed on evil spirits ...
In coming weeks, tens of thousands of students in Afghanistan are set to sit for university entrance examinations. Notably absent from the list of candidates will be females. The upcoming exams ...
Islamabad: At least 23 militants affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed and seven Pakistani soldiers died in three separate clashes since Sunday in the troubled ...
Log in to share your opinion with MPR News and add it to your profile. The Taliban has a history of supporting the use of stoning as a punishment for "moral crimes ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers stated their intention Wednesday to join a United Nations-organized meeting in Doha on June 30 that aims to facilitate and coordinate the world’s engagement with ...
Pakistan, US discuss how to tackle the regional security threat posed by IS group and local Taliban Pakistan's Foreign Ministry says Pakistani and U.S. officials have held their latest talks in ...
Pakistan has formally protested to the Taliban government 12 times after finding the offshoot based in Afghanistan was behind several attacks in the South Asian country in the past few years, he said.
After over three years in power, the Taliban appear to be trying outreach as well as repression in governing Afghanistan’s diverse communities. by Ronald Neumann Andrew Watkins Follow @and_huh ...
MOSCOW, May 27 (Reuters) - Russia has invited Afghanistan's Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to remove a ban on the Islamist movement, a senior Russian diplomat was ...
Along a barren, dusty road on Afghanistan’s border with Iran, slingshots line the sand. For years, they have propelled drugs from western Nimroz province across the border to Sistan and ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected militants bombed a girl’s school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure, police said Friday, although no one was hurt in the ...