Their growing Taliban influence in Badakhshan is now prompting concerns that the province will become a bastion for regional terrorism because it borders Pakistan, China, and Tajikistan.
An Iranian woman was arrested in December for appearing on a Tehran street with an uncovered head and waving a white scarf. Vida Movahedi's protest against the law requiring women to wear the hijab has inspired dozens of other Iranians to take action. (Margot Buff, RFE/RL)
A strong earthquake has hit the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan, causing casualties in the country and in neighboring Pakistan.
One by one, Iranians are publicly defying the so-called hijab rule in echoes of an iconic protest by a 31-year-old mother in Tehran.
This week, the Majlis looks at the problems new Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov inherited, what he is doing about them, and what he needs to do to move Kyrgyzstan forward.
Top Tajik officials have been warned that they can get in trouble if their wives don't take part in volunteer work.
After almost a decade of absence, U.S. diplomacy is back in the Caspian energy game. (The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Geographer Hermann Kreutzmann's Wakhan Quadrangle. Exploration And Espionage During And After The Great Game, published this year, sheds light on these historiographical problems in a valley purportedly traversed by famous explorer Marco Polo.
The federal prosecutor's office in Germany says police have conducted a series searches across the country in connection with investigations into 10 suspected Iranian spies.
In Pakistan Afghan refugees feel caught between Islamabad and Washington as bilateral relations rapidly deteriorate after U.S. President Donald Trump accused Pakistan on January 1 of “lies and deceit” while providing a safe haven to terrorists that U.S. forces are seeking to counter in Afghanistan.
A controversial video of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from 1989, when he was appointed supreme leader, is raising questions about his leadership.
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