Here is a brief overview of the major ethnic groups in Afghanistan. The Pashtuns are Afghanistan’s biggest ethnic group, making up more than 42 per cent of the population. The group -which is ...

Recent clashes between anti-government groups and security forces in Syria have put the Alawite community in the spotlight.

The Baloch Liberation Army is the strongest of a number of insurgent groups long operating in the area bordering Afghanistan and Iran.

Teresa Parsons, a former Army nurse who was wounded while serving in Iraq, was excited when she recently applied for a new job at the Department of Veterans Affairs. She hoped it would allow her to ...

The Afghan Taliban have rejected Pakistan's allegation that Tuesday's deadly hostage-taking of a train was planned and ...

Pakistani security forces declared an end to ethnic separatists’ seizure of a train carrying more than 400 people.

Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called ... Survivors told VOA the attackers singled out security personnel and ethnic Punjabi passengers, shooting many. "Pakistan expects the Interim ...

Separatist militant group the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed that they had taken hostages during an attack on a train carrying hundreds of people, including paramilitary troops, in southwestern ...

Twenty-seven off-duty soldiers were killed in the attack by the Baloc Liberation Army, which accuses outsiders of plundering ...

Female activists who fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan say their lives are in danger once again as Islamabad intensifies its efforts to deport Afghan refugees. Zahra Mousavi, a women's rights activist ...

The death toll from a militant hijacking of a train in Pakistan's southwestern mountains has risen to 31 soldiers, staff and ...