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 ...

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 ...

The Afghan government and Taliban militants remain far apart on even the most basic issues a week into talks meant to end two decades of a war that has killed tens of thousands of people, diplomats ...

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 ...

Rescuers are continuing to search for victims of flash flooding that has left hundreds dead in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Officials in Afghanistan said on August 29 that about 160 people had been ...

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 ...

Seven years ago, Dharamveer Solanki, a Hindu, left his home in Pakistan’s Hyderabad city, never to return. When his train crossed the border into India, Solanki said he felt happier than ever before. ...

An invasion of locusts has spread across Pakistan, officials said, causing damage to crops and orchards and posing a threat to food security in an impoverished Islamic nation already struggling to ...

A widely anticipated agreement between Afghanistan’s Islamist Taliban movement and the United States is expected to include safeguards to ensure that it leads to ending over four decades of war in 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 ...

The 19-year-old Taliban deserter is haunted by the memory of the attack on a police checkpoint in northern Afghanistan in August. The Taliban band of around 20 fighters began its assault at 10 pm, he ...

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 ...