Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
In carrying out a state tourism development plan in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan has destroyed areas of the city's historic center that had earned it global recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
A U.S.-based advocacy group for refugees trying to enter the United States says the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has officially stopped scheduling interviews for applicants under the Afghan special immigrant visa program.
As a candidate, Donald Trump’s statements on issues ranging from Russian ties to immigration startled many people in the United States and abroad. As president, will he be able to implement his policy promises?
Ahmad Masud was 12 years old when his father, the legendary anti-Taliban military commander known as the "Lion of Panjshir," was killed by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in northern Afghanistan on September 9, 2001.
The idea of erecting barriers to keep undesirables at bay did not crumble with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Nine Afghan employees of a government development program have been killed in their guesthouse in a remote village of northern Afghanistan's Balkh Province.
Hamid Mir's reputation as one of Pakistan's most revered -- and loathed -- journalists has come into focus amid a public debate over who riddled his body with bullets.
