For generations, women across Afghanistan have suffered in silence as their men engaged in war and violence, often leaving them as widows and orphans.
In 2016, more than 31 million people were displaced within their own countries due to conflicts or natural disasters. Which countries were affected the most?
Notorious former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has called on his Taliban "brothers" to end their insurgency and offered to mediate talks between the militant group and with the government.
For most of the past decade, the vast coastal region of Makran was a hotbed of nationalist insurgency in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan region. Journalist Kiyya Baloch recently toured the region to witness the changing fortunes of Makran.
The United Nations' envoy for Afghanistan said the country’s problems cannot be solved through military means and he urged Taliban militants to enter peace talks.
A northwestern Pakistani region dubbed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as “the most dangerous place in the world” is finally getting some positive press.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban movement is expressing interest in peace talks amid calls for its contact office in Qatar to be closed.
Amnesty International says human rights around the world are under threat because of politicians who are using "toxic, dehumanizing" rhetoric against ethnic or religious minorities in order to strengthen their political powers.
A Pakistani ski resort destroyed by the Taliban 10 years ago is coming back to life amid improved security and new investment.
Amid strong skepticism, some Afghan experts see U.S. President Donald Trump’s affability toward Russian President Vladimir Putin as an opportunity to gain Moscow’s support for Afghan stability.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reiterated support for long-awaited reforms that might see the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) merge into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In the nearly four decades of various cycles of the Afghan war, few alliances are as baffling as Iran’s not-so-secret cooperation with the Afghan Taliban.
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