There has been a significant uptick in violence in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the UN has documented. Anti-Taliban resistance ...

Here is a brief overview of the major ethnic groups in Afghanistan. The Pashtuns are Afghanistan’s biggest ethnic group, making up more than 42 per cent of the population. The group -which is ...

Afghanistan is a complex mosaic of ethnolinguistic groups. The dominant group, politically and in terms of numbers, has been the Pashtun, who consider themselves the “true” Afghani people. Pashtuns ...

The Taliban have allegedly purchased satellite jammers from Iran to disrupt the last remaining independent television channel ...

Afghan religious police wield new power to enforce a ban on women raising their voices in public and looking at men other ...

Even though over 20% of Pakistan's military is Pashtun and they are well represented in the bureaucracy, the gap between the ...

As many as six soldiers were martyred and 12 terrorists killed in two separate operations in North and South Waziristan by ...

While its membership is drawn from Afghanistan's major ethnic groups (Pashtun, Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek, and one religious minority, Shia), and it is led by the southern Pashtun leader Hamid ...

Afghanistan has made its way into the U.S. headlines once again in the run-up to the presidential election. Both Democrats ...

Hailing from Afghanistan, Najiba Faiz is a known Pashtun actor and anchor. She is the first Pashtun woman who kicked off her career as a child artist from PTV. She completed her bachelor’s ...

Refugees navigating resettlement often face a shared hurdle: poor machine translations and a short supply of interpreters ...

It was the “unveiling” video that triggered the nausea. Hashmatullah Shahidi and Tim Southee, the Test captains of ...