In our news wrap Friday, Pakistan's defense minister says his country is engaged in "open war" with Afghanistan, Israel's ...

Pakistan's defense minister says there is "open war" on the Afghan Taliban government after tensions between the two countries flared.

Pakistan's defense minister said that his country ran out of "patience" and considers that there is now an "open war" with Afghanistan, after both countries launched strikes following an Afghan ...

A triumph in indoor soccer has turned Alireza Ahmadi, 17, and other players from the Hazara minority, long marginalized in Afghanistan, into national heroes.

Academy acceptance brings rare global recognition amid Taliban bans on cinema, music, and education NEW YORK, NY, ...

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The Peshawar High Court deferred a hearing concerning Afghan artists seeking protection from deportation to February 18. The musicians, fearing persecution in Afghanistan, argue their situation as ...

Mehr Mumtaz receives funding from the Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Grant, and the Mershon Center for International Security's Graduate Research Grant. In January 2025, Seema received an email ...

Senate Republicans this week lambasted a U.S. program to assist Afghans who served alongside troops, saying it did not properly vet tens of thousands of people who fled to the U.S. following the ...

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to bring the Taliban to heel. This deterioration is striking, given Islamabad’s ...

Welcoming Afghan refugees used to be a rare point of unity for Republicans and Democrats. But in the aftermath of a deadly shooting last month, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his GOP challenger, U.S. Rep.

U.S. officials rushed Mohammad Nabi onto a plane out of Afghanistan so quickly in 2021 that he didn’t have time to bring his passport, his wife or his eight children. More than four years later, the ...