The rising number of executions of former army and police in Afghanistan is being taken as clear evidence that the Taliban is not living up to its pledges of a general amnesty for all members of the ...

A humanitarian crisis is brewing along Pakistan's southwestern border with Iran after Islamabad closed the border indefinitely while it builds a fence. Thousands of fuel carriers are trapped in the ...

Analysts say the planned unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan by September is a major victory for the Taliban.

In Afghanistan's Pashtun tribal heartland, many turn to tribal councils instead of state courts for swift justice and unlikely routes to reconciliation.

Saudi Arabia has boasted of its “huge” reforms of the labor market aimed at restructuring the harsh sponsorship rules that are often blamed for the exploitation and abuse of millions of foreign ...

A spate of deadly urban attacks in Afghanistan has highlighted possible rifts between the Taliban leadership and the allied Haqqani network, the lethal arm of the militant group.

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 Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan is now back in parts of Malakand Division, an administrative region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where thousands were killed and millions displaced during years of ...

Victims of Afghanistan's long conflict have been excluded from peace talks aimed at ending the war. They warn that any peace settlement will be fragile if it does not address past crimes.

Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of ...

An example of a hybrid regime is Pakistan, characterized by an ambiguous institutional makeup with a disproportionate predominance of military over civilian affairs.

Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region.