A separatist faction in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has called on India to intervene in the simmering conflict in the region. In 1971, Bangladesh emerged after Indian forces defeated the Pakistani military to end a gruesome civil war.
The producer of a Kyrgyz film about the Great Urkun, the mass killing of ethnic Kyrgyz by Russian forces after an uprising in 1916, says Kyrgyz officials have not yet approved his film for viewing because they fear offending the Kremlin.
Central Asia experts have recently voiced a consensus view: A leadership change in the region won't translate into real changes. The verdict is logical. Yet a look at known trends suggests changes might come sooner than anticipated.
Soldiers from China, Russia and Central Asian nations began a week of military excercises in Kyrgyzstan. (RFE/RF's Kyrgyz Service)
Samar Khan, a recent university graduate from Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, completed a grueling bike journey from Islamabad to the Karakoram mountains. She's the first Pakistani woman to cycle across glaciers -- and she encourages other young people to take on their own epic challenges.
The residents of a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan are attempting to rebuild their homeland after enduring years of terrorist tyranny and displacement by military operations.
The Afghan president and one of the country’s major insurgent leaders say they are ready to sign a peace deal
Pakistan’s powerful military says it is investigating the reported beating of highway police officials by army officers who were allegedly enraged after cops gave them tickets for violating traffic laws.
For those accustomed to watching the slow movement of Uzbekistan’s government over the years, this month has already been a shock. RFE/RL convened the Majlis podcast to discuss Uzbekistan’s power transition following the death of President Islam Karimov.
Some Iranians and Afghans have taken to social media to condemn authorities in the Iranian city of Shiraz for putting arrested, blindfolded Afghan refugees on display.
The assassination of Ahmad Shah Masud, the anti-Taliban commander who was killed in Afghanistan by Al-Qaeda militants 15 years ago, will forever be connected to the 9/11 attacks that followed.
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.
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