Years ago, Pakistan declared victory against the Taliban after large-scale military operations in a northwestern mountainous region. But the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the formal name of the ...

The mountainous province of Badakhshan in northeastern Afghanistan evaded Taliban rule when the hard-line Islamist movement dominated the rest of the country in the 1990s. Today, however, the Taliban ...

NAD-E ALI, Afghanistan -- Muhammad Lala, a white-bearded Pashtun patriarch, is not happy upon returning to his house after more than a year. Lala, a farmer, left his humble mud home in great haste in ...

For nearly 18 years, Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban movement largely refrained from attacking the country’s predominately Shi’ite Hazara minority. But the Taliban recently began targeting ...

Leaders of the Russia- and China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have urged the world to unfreeze Afghanistan's assets and boost assistance to the war-torn nation as it teeters on the ...

Officials in Dushanbe say they've received reports that Tajik militants who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan are now making plans to cross the border into Tajikistan. An official at ...

Traces of bullets and Negar's blood are still visible on the walls and doors of her family home, a daily reminder of the night gunmen came for the expecting mother, wife -- and former Afghan ...

A new movement demanding security for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority is transforming into a nationalist struggle with long-term consequences for the country’s politics, security, society, and ...

It took Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan a little longer than their neighbors to articulate their stances on a Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. Distance has its benefits, and since neither Kazakhstan ...

KABUL, -- Mehman Gul, a teenage girl in Afghanistan, resents missing school. Unlike millions of other Afghans, fighting and displacement didn’t prevent her from going to school. Rather, it was her ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan and Tajikistan have signed several accords to boost ties between the two nations, including defense and armaments. "It is very important that our defense cooperation develops," ...

DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan has awarded posthumously two former Afghan political figures, Ahmad Shah Masud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, with the country's highest honor, the Order of Ismoili Somoni. Tajik ...