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The late Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar lived near a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan for years, a new book claims.
A fake-job scam in Tajikistan "guaranteed" Tajiks they would get automotive jobs and housing in the Czech Republic following an upfront "recruitment payment" of $1,320.
RFE/RL's Media-Relations Manager Muhammad Tahir moderated a discussion on Gadoev’s case -- and on previous situations where the accounts of the Tajik authorities are in question.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has called for what he called "decisive" action by Pakistan in the wake of a deadly suicide attack in a border area.
The United States has for the first time named Gulnara Karimova, the elder daughter of the late president of Uzbekistan, in a major international bribery scheme, charging her with conspiracy to violate U.S. foreign-corruption laws.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for immediate talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, saying peace can only be reached through "comprehensive intra-Afghan dialogue."
U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, has said that the current political situation in Afghanistan and the status of negotiations with the Taliban currently under way "don't merit" a troop withdrawal, despite President Donald Trump's goal of a drawdown.
Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called for the immediate and unconditional release of 27 women journalists currently held in “appalling conditions” around the world.
President Donald Trump has revoked a policy requiring U.S. intelligence officials to report civilian deaths in drone strikes outside of war zones.
On a village farm in northern Pakistan, it's not just the workers but the manager who is a woman. Thirty-year-old Sahar Iqbal and her husband inherited the land, and she now manages 100 full-time female workers.
Pakistan's government says it has taken control of 182 religious schools and detained more than 100 people as part of its crackdown against Islamist militants.
An Afghan presidential candidate and eight bodyguards of a rival candidate have been injured by a barrage of mortars that exploded in western Kabul, near a ceremony honoring a prominent Shi'ite leader who was killed by the Taliban more than 20 years ago.
A Kyrgyz woman has described how she was drugged and attacked by a group of men after they learned she was transgender. The first gender-reassigment surgery was performed in Kyrgyzstan in 2014, and Kyrgyz citizens can now change their legal gender, provided they have undergone surgery.
At least 17 people have been killed in a militant attack on a construction company in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
Pakistan says it has arrested dozens of suspected militants, including prominent members of a group that has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.
Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry says the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar has expressed interest in cooperating with Tashkent in order to push Afghanistan's peace process forward.
Five people were killed when the Iranian rescue helicopter they were traveling in crashed into a utility pole in western Iran on March 4, according to state media.
At least 32 people, including children, have been killed in flooding in Afghanistan's southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand. According to the United Nations, 20 people died in Kandahar, with 10 people missing, and 2,000 homes destroyed.
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