In “The Finest Hotel in Kabul,” the BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most ...

Pakistan massively enhanced the funding for Islamists in Afghanistan, hoping to bury ethnic nationalism. That strategy has ...

From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters and miners to operate as covert agents if Soviet paratroopers ever landed ...

The former U.S. and Soviet air base has been a central location for empires for thousands of years. Does Trump truly ...

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...

Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both sides said on Sunday, in the most serious fighting between the neighbours since the Taliban came to ...

Afghan refugees sit next to their belongings loaded onto vehicles as they wait for opening of the border crossing point, which closed following Afghan and Pakistani security forces exchanged cross ...

The recent earthquake in Afghanistan has laid bare the country’s worsening women’s health crisis and demonstrated how restrictive Taliban laws and collapsed infrastructure left women without access to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Putin began a three-day state visit to Tajikistan Wednesday, meeting with leaders from former Soviet nations as ...

A UN expert on Tuesday welcomed the decision by consensus during the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council to establish an independent investigative mechanism for Afghanistan. The decision also ...

Russia warned Tuesday that it would consider any new foreign military presence in Afghanistan or nearby countries “categorically unacceptable,” delivering the message during a high-level meeting in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. A general view shows the Human Rights and Alliance of ...