More Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iranians sought asylum in the European Union last year, despite a sharp decrease in the total overall number of asylum applicants, according to a new EU report.
Facing militant death threats for helping the United States, Afghans and Iraqis have taken the U.S. government to court for swift decisions on special immigrant visas.
Almost 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are unable to go to school due to ongoing conflict, poverty, and discrimination against girls, the United Nations’ Children's Fund (UNICEF) says.
Tajik authorities are preparing to order migrant laborers to have their blood tested upon their return, and that means no unsafe sex until the results are in.
As the head of Afghanistan’s internationally applauded teenage robotics team, Qaderyan represents a new generation of Afghans determined to overcome the country’s recent history of division, violence, and oppression against women.
The United States says religious persecution continues to be widespread around the globe as it unveiled its annual report on religious freedom, with violations cited in Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, among other countries.
A UN report says violence against Afghan women, including honor killings, often goes unpunished despite state efforts to prosecute such crimes.
More than 3,000 members of the Hazara minority have been killed in targeted killings and terror attacks in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province since 2001, leaders of the community told the country's parliament.
The Pakistani exchange student killed in the Texas high school mass shooting was due to return to her home country next month for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, her father says.
The Kabul in William Podlich's photographs is an almost unrecognizable place -- a bustling capital of modern cars, green parks, and nattily attired men and women, many wearing Western dress.
A mother of two in Afghanistan sold her five-month-old daughter to raise money for medical treatment for a relative. The case sparked deep concern in the country, and officials and others have raised money for both medical costs and to get the child back to her mom.
Sitara Wafadar is female, but has spent her life disguised as a boy -- forced by her parents to be the son they never had.
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