A Kyrgyz family had to bury a mother three times in different cemeteries over her choice of faiths, highlighting an all-too-common discrepancy between law and local practice.
As Turkey cracks down hard on perceived enemies like the Gulen movement at home, it also looks set to escalate the controversy over the global Islamic education movement by pressing other countries to follow suit.
Kabul was booming until foreign troops left Afghanistan in 2014. Now the city is strapped with a burgeoning population and a faltering economy.
Much of the world's response to the extremist group Islamic State (IS) has been to look for ways to defeat it militarily. But the underlying challenge is to defeat the group's ideology.
Turkmenistan's authoritarian president has a soft spot for Akhal-Teke horses -- the country's national symbol. So he has passed a new law regulating the horses' lives.
With the Taliban in control of much of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, and government forces engaged in a counteroffensive to take it back, residents say they're bracing for heavy fighting.
Five things to know about the new U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement that sets forth the conditions for some American soldiers to remain in Afghanistan beyond this year.
Is the Islamic State extremist group expanding to Afghanistan and Pakistan? The possibility is growing as some militants in the region are pledging allegiance to the organization's leadership.
There is no underestimating the anger that supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah feel over initial election results showing him way behind his rival. But how much power does he have to make trouble if the crisis continues?
