Iranian authorities handed over 200 Afghan prisoners at the main border crossing in Islam Qala in western Afghanistan.
Pakistan is cracking down on "blasphemous" content on social media, with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urging swift punishment for those involved in "a nefarious conspiracy" against the country's Muslim majority.
India is doubling-down on hydropower projects worth $15 billion in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir despite Pakistani warnings that the new power stations will disrupt water supplies.
A bomb disposal squad comb the dusty streets of a southern Afghan city for hidden explosives and booby traps.
The U.S. has been relying on Pakistan as an ally in the war on terror in the region and has provided the country with billions of dollars in aid over the last 15 years.
Reformists in Iran are under pressure, detainees face torture and abuse, and people are being executed at an "alarming" rate, a UN monitor studying human rights in the tightly controlled country says.
A former Afghan spymaster is skeptical that the Islamic State (IS) militants are capable of carrying out complex urban attacks such as the recent deadly assault on a military hospital in the capital, Kabul.
A group of Afghan women who were held captive by Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan finally broke their silence and spoke about IS torture and mistreatment. They said the terror group kept them in confined quarters for days at a time.
The factors that helped Tajikistan become the world leader in the export of suicide bombers to the extremist group Islamic State.
In parts of volatile southern Afghanistan, the police there say they have not been paid in weeks, lowering morale even further at a time of year when there is usually an increase in Taliban attacks against security forces.
The United Nations' envoy for Afghanistan said the country’s problems cannot be solved through military means and he urged Taliban militants to enter peace talks.
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.
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