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 ...

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 ...

Syed Ayub Khan, like many other residents of North Waziristan, a district in western Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, is concerned over mounting insecurity in his homeland. Frequent reports of targeted ...

RFE/RL's Radio Azadi is one of the most popular and trusted media outlets in Afghanistan. Nearly half of the country's adult audience accesses Azadi's reporting on a weekly basis.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says if he is elected he will maintain a small troop presence in Afghanistan and Iraq to help battle terrorism in the war-ravaged countries. Biden said ...

QUETTA, Pakistan -- Home to several secular political movements, the vast mineral-rich province of Balochistan in southwestern Pakistan once prided itself on tolerance and diversity as its various ...

Haseeba Qambrani’s daily routine revolves around praying, grieving, and protesting. The young woman in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan says she is doing everything in her power ...

TARINKOT, Afghanistan – Ehsanullah Wulasmal, a freelance journalist in Afghanistan’s remote southern province of Uruzgan, is feverishly typing up a story about the restive region where the Taliban ...

In northwestern Pakistan, marriages are usually arranged by parents and families. The lavish weddings are a time of joy and celebration for the families, friends and relatives of the bride and the ...