Shaesta Waiz, a 29-year-old Afghan-American pilot, is flying around the world in her single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza A36.
An Afghan group is seeking to end long-held taboos in society and restore a basic right to women -- for them to be identified by their own names.
Six Afghan girls have received U.S. visas and are set to fly to Washington after President Donald Trump intervened to allow them into the United States for an international robotics competition.
A recent Gallup poll shows that people in Latin America had the most positive experiences in 2016, while Greeks were the most stressed and Iranians the angriest.
Six Afghan teenage girls were getting ready to travel from Herat to Washington for a robotics competition after being granted permission to enter the United States. Their visa applications were initially denied, but U.S. President Donald Trump intervened after a public backlash.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a group of infrastructure projects currently underway in Pakistan.
The historical Iranian city of Yazd has been added to UNESCO’s coveted World Heritage List at the World Heritage Committee’s 41st session, which took place in Krakow on July 9.
Industry loomed large in the race for influence between the West and the Soviet Union, symbolizing power and the ability to create, innovate, and carry the world into the future.
Uzbekistan has banned its musicians from passing off foreign songs as their own.
A state TV broadcast of a satirical poem leads to protest on the streets of Peshawar. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
A 12-year-old Pakistani girl was killed by her family after she eloped with a boy, according to accounts by villagers and officials in the northwestern tribal district of Khyber.
Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the "festival of breaking the fast." The holiday marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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