Repeated appeals from the international community for restraint have had no effect as the fighting, now in its ninth day, ...

Irish photojournalist and filmmaker Seamus Murphy is prepping a documentary that follows 30 years in the lives of an Afghan family driven from home.

Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further ...

Over four years of border tensions and clashes have drilled a deep well of distrust between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan-Afghanistan relations have entered their most dangerous phase in decades.

The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this ...

President Trump’s decision to freeze refugee processing left thousands in limbo. For more than a year, 1,100 Afghan refugees who thought they were bound for the United States have been stranded on a ...

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East, replacing Iran’s Western-backed leader ...

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.