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 ...

Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of ...

HERAT, -- Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region. Its monuments and properties have either fallen into ...

Major Afghan cities have been largely spared from the deadly militant attacks that once struck them regularly. The Taliban agreed to stop bombing urban centers under a landmark peace deal signed with ...

The loss of the child his pregnant mother was carrying makes her assassination a double murder, said the son, one of Negar's 10 surviving children along with her husband. Considering her previous ...

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 ...

A prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist has died after being critically injured in a gun attack in Pakistan’s western South Waziristan tribal district. Sardar Arif Wazir, a senior leader of the ...

But he sees China unlikely to assume the role held by the United States and its allies in Afghanistan. “It’s very unlikely that in the near future China will have the will, mechanisms, and resources ...

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 ...

Months after the demise of the Taliban regime in December 2001, an emergency Loya Jirga elected Hamid Karzai as president of an interim Afghan government in June 2002. A year and a half later, the ...

“We are trying our best to help civilians and, as you can see, it prompts them to cooperate with the authorities,” he said. In a visit earlier this week, Radio Free Afghanistan witnessed combat after ...

GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- In a reminder that Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban movement is hoping to revive its harsh rule from a quarter-century ago, residents and officials in a southeast Afghan ...