The United Nations has reported 600 civilian deaths in Afghanistan's war in the first quarter of this year -- down 13 percent from the first three months of 2015.
Freedom House just released its annual Nations In Transit (NIT) report, an indispensable look at the human rights situation in 29 countries, including all five Central Asian states.
Pope Francis has paid a highly emotional visit to a migrant detention center in Greece, in a bold gesture of solidarity for the refugees whose influx has roiled European politics.
An Afghan lawmaker appears to threaten his female interviewer with rape in a new documentary on the state of women's rights, and for that he is demanding an apology from whomever plotted against him by distributing the taped exchange.
At least two explosions have been reported in Kabul's diplomatic area, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left the Afghan capital following an unannounced visit during which he called on the Taliban to restart direct peace talks with the government.
With the Russian economy in tatters, figures for remittances in 2015 from the millions of Central Asian citizens working in Russia have been published for the five states in Central Asia and they showed what many had feared.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan in an attempt to defuse a growing political crisis fueled partly by a national unity deal he brokered after the disputed presidential election in 2014.
Pakistan has denied any wrongdoing by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after it was linked to offshore wealth holdings in the massive Panama Papers scandal.
Narendra Modi engages Saudi Arabia as part of diplomatic offensive against Pakistan by forging ties with some of the Indian arch rival’s closest allies
Pakistani authorities have vowed to hunt down perpetrators behind an Easter Sunday bombing in the city of Lahore that killed more than 70 people and injured some 300 others.
A faction of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly blast at a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed at least 69 and wounded hundreds more, saying the Easter Day suicide bombing deliberately targeted Christians.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has strongly criticized U.S. "punishments" handed to officers involved in a deadly bombing raid on an Afghan hospital last year.
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