Attan historically originated as a war dance among the Pashtun tribes that now straddle Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan is now back in parts of Malakand Division, an administrative region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where thousands were killed and millions displaced during years of ...

Frequent reports of targeted assassinations, clashes, and attacks on security forces leave the residents of Waziristan worried over the specter of the region in western Pakistan relapsing into anarchy ...

Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of ...

Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region.

FAYZABAD, Afghanistan -- Melting glaciers in a remote Afghan province pose a major threat to the country’s water resources, climate, and economic prospects. Ziaul Haq Kamran heads Afghanistan’s ...

Their stateless status prevents Afghanistan's tiny Jogi minority from owning property, building business, accessing jobs, education, healthcare, other services, and fundamental rights.

A spate of deadly urban attacks in Afghanistan has highlighted possible rifts between the Taliban leadership and the allied Haqqani network, the lethal arm of the militant group.

Tens of thousands of civilians are returning to ruined houses and devastated livelihoods in Nad-e Ali. With the aid of U.S. forces and airpower, Afghan forces are slowly reclaiming lost territories in ...

China is cautiously increasing its role in South Asia by rejuvenating economic interests in Pakistan and forging closer ties to Afghanistan with peace talks between Afghan officials and the Taliban ...

The rising number of executions of former army and police in Afghanistan is being taken as clear evidence that the Taliban is not living up to its pledges of a general amnesty for all members of the ...

As the United States and its allies begin what looks like a final drawdown of their forces from Afghanistan, China appears to be expanding its role and influence in the country.