For most of the Afghan men, women and children living in the Hijra Colony and Afghan Basti nestled on the northern outskirts of Karachi, li...

Sunday's ceremony occurred a little more than a year after Biden ended the long and costly war in Afghanistan that the U.S. and allies laun...

While Afghanistan is a deeply conservative, patriarchal country, it is not uncommon for women to drive in larger cities -- particularly Her...

A statement from the British government this week said there are a number of British nationals currently in Taliban custody. While the gove...

During the weekend, the education ministry issued a diktat ordering male teachers and students back to secondary school -- but made no ment...

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the killings on its Amaq news channel. The IS affiliate in Afghanistan is far more radic...

Many Afghans fear the Taliban will erase the gains, especially for women, achieved in the decades since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. When...

Siddiqui, in his early 40s, was covering the situation in Kandahar over the last few days. Based in Mumbai, he had received the Pulitzer Pr...

While the ultra-conservative Islamists ban women from many areas of life -- often forcing them to stay home and barring them from most jobs...

Yet 18 years later, after the U.S. spent nearly $900 billion and more than 147,000 people died, the Taliban are growing more confident of r...

The decision has been taken on humanitarian grounds and as a goodwill gesture towards Afghanistan.

The Afghan first lady was addressing a gathering of members of India Women Network (IWN), an initiative of the Confederation of Indian Indu...

India will follow with "laser- like precision" the developments in Banerjee murder case after it has emerged that the plot to kill her was ...

Four more men were detained today on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee.

India today said it will wait for the final outcome of the investigations into the death Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, who was killed by...

"It is a cold blooded murder," Kunal Kumar Ghosh (Trinamool Congress) said, raising the issue during Zero Hour.

A senior police official said Banerjee, also known as Sayed Kamala, was working as a health worker in Paktika and had been filming the live...