Pakistan’s powerful generals have for decades cited political corruption as a leading problem in the country that justified the toppling of governments through repeated coups and the military's ...

Nearly half a century ago, a bloodless palace coup in Afghanistan ended more than two centuries of Durrani monarchy in Afghanistan. But the power grab of the July 17, 1973, coup that saw Sardar ...

A fact-finding team for the Afghan parliament has alleged that a construction project at the country’s embassy in Washington was rife with corruption. The parliamentary probe was launched after an ...

KABUL/HERAT -- Basira Akhtar, a student at Kabul University, Afghanistan’s largest and oldest public university, says she is a victim of the rising extremism at her institution. The 22-year-old fourth ...

Raees Khudaidad's name in his home province of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan elicits polarized reactions. Most of his compatriots see him as a notorious murderer, robber and kidnapper. But the ...

It was in the late 1980s when Ismail Qaani -- then a local commander in Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) -- first became active in Afghanistan. It was to be the start of Qaani ...

At least 10 people have been killed after a landslide buried a minibus under tons of mud and rock in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region. The minibus, carrying 15 people, was traveling from ...

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 ...

An Afghan official says eight policemen have been killed by a colleague who turned his gun on them in the southern province of Zabul. Ghulam Jalani Farahi, the province's deputy police chief, said the ...

The first field trial of a new typhoid vaccine that can be used in young children provides protection for 81.6 percent of recipients, opening the door to better control of a disease that affects 11 ...