In Afghanistan's Pashtun tribal heartland, many turn to tribal councils instead of state courts for swift justice and unlikely routes to reconciliation.
In villages and towns across Afghanistan, grieving families mourning the loss of fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands in the country's fratricidal war are united in demanding peace for their country.
France faces a growing backlash over images being displayed in the country of the Prophet Muhammad, which some Muslims consider blasphemous.
While EU leaders mull a controversial new system for migration, disturbing reports are emerging of migrants being beaten and abused by Croatian police as they seek to enter the European Union via Bosnia-Herzegovina.
An increasing number of young Afghans, including women, are turning to mountaineering to celebrate and promote their country’s natural beauty and tourism potential.
Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of conflict in the western region.
Concerns are rising for the fate of tens of thousands of civilians caught up in battles between Afghan government forces and the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand.
Far from the pounding of artillery and the buzz of state-of-the-art combat drones in the Caucasus, an online battle quickly emerged in English for control of the narrative to the latest episode in a 32-year-old conflict.
A sit-in protest by residents of Pakistan’s remote North Waziristan tribal district continued for a second consecutive day on October 14 as they demanded the release of all the locals allegedly detained by security forces following a roadside bombing last month.
Internet freedom has declined for the 10th consecutive year as governments around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic as a "cover" to expand online surveillance, crack down on dissent, and build new technological systems to control society, Freedom House says in a new report.
Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region.
Hard-line Muslim clerics in a conservative northwestern Pakistani village have announced a boycott of music and dance at weddings.
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