Senior officials from world powers attending at a donors conference in Brussels have pledged more than $15 billion in aid for Afghanistan during the next four years.
In a move likely to aggravate already tense relations between the two neighbors, India is accelerating its building of new hydropower plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan
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.
Many Afghans who recently left Pakistan because of police brutality and government pressure are now discovering their war-torn homeland is not welcoming, either.
Thousands of laid-off foreign workers are refusing to leave labor camps after being denied wages for months amid poor conditions as the Saudi government defends its offer of free flights home.
Cumbersome mandatory Pakistani security clearances are preventing thousands of immigrant workers from visiting their families in the country’s restive western tribal areas.
Turkmenistan is apparently having enormous economic problems. The country's system is so opaque that it is always difficult to know much about what is going on there. But the recent decision to scrap the two entities that were overseeing the oil and gas sector and to restructure the management of that industry give the impression that the authorities in Ashgabat are getting desperate.
As Turkey cracks down hard on perceived enemies like the Gulen movement at home, it also looks set to escalate the controversy over the global Islamic education movement by pressing other countries to follow suit.
Three annual poppy harvests in Afghanistan’s most dangerous province are creating a bonanza for the Taliban, helping to boost their war coffers as they engage in one of their most violent annual campaigns.
Amid a harsh government crackdown on Afghan exiles, Islamabad has agreed to allow millions of Afghan refugees to live in the country for six more months.
Kabul was booming until foreign troops left Afghanistan in 2014. Now the city is strapped with a burgeoning population and a faltering economy.
Despite what their governments might say, citizens around the world are overwhelmingly open to the idea of helping refugees.
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