Nineteen-year-old twins Atta and Farzana were among 34 recent high-school graduates killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul this week.
Many families in Shangla, an impoverished mountainous district in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, have lost loved ones to mining accidents, while others struggle to look after those who were injured or who suffer from diseases caused by harsh working conditions.
Hundreds of villagers in northwestern Pakistan staged a protest against the killing of a local man in a police operation on August 14. The residents of a village in the Swabi district placed the dead body on a road and staged a sit-in to demand the arrest of the police officers responsible.
Afghans recall life under the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in northern Afghanistan, where residents accuse the militants of rape, forced marriages, and using child soldiers.
The estimated 3,000 displaced families from Shawal are part of 14,369 families still awaiting government permission and assistance in returning to North Waziristan.
Women's rights activist Shafiqa Khpalwak is hoping to change public attitudes in Afghanistan with her newly released Pashto-language translation of Women Who Work, the 2017 book by U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser, Ivanka.
On June 26, 2018, the Netherlands became the latest European country to approve a partial ban on face coverings. Here are other European countries that have, to some extent, banned face veils as well.
According to a new report by the U.S. State Department, Belarus, Iran, Russia, and Turkmenistan remain among the worst offenders when it comes providing protection against human trafficking and forced labor.
Health officials in a restive Afghan province say three-quarters of children under the age of 5 are being denied a vaccination against the crippling infectious disease polio.
The Pakistani government says it has granted another extension to a deadline for the forced repatriation of some 2 million Afghan refugees.
In rural Afghanistan, the Taliban have now banned adolescent girls from getting an education after forcing some schools to close and imposing their own curriculum on others.
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