A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war. Mohammad IqbalCredit...Victor J. Blue for The New York ...

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 ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In the sprawling fruit market in this northwestern Pakistani city, Imran has spent the past several months waiting for shipments that aren’t arriving. The crates of Afghan walnuts ...

Since the withdrawal of international forces and the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, Afghanistan’s once-diverse media landscape has collapsed under a lack of funding and restrictions -- and ...

After abandoning hope of influencing the Taliban, Central Asian nations have sought to insulate themselves from Afghanistan’s instability. For much of the past two decades, regional diplomacy on ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — An overnight exchange of fire between Afghan forces and Pakistani troops along the two countries' tense border killed five Afghan civilians and wounded five others, while ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday, putting to death a man who the country’s Supreme Court ...

Jige Mughalgai, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Taliban government vowed Tuesday to "respond appropriately" to overnight border strikes it blamed on Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tension between the ...

Tajikistan and Afghanistan's Taliban have engaged in a flurry of diplomacy in recent months to ease tensions and prevent armed clashes along their long, shared border. Tajik and Taliban officials have ...

Nov. 3 (UPI) --A strong earthquake struck northern Afghanistan early Monday, killing more than 20 people and injuring hundreds more, though the death toll is expected to rise. The temblor was ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have failed in Istanbul after four days of negotiations, Pakistan’s information minister said before dawn Wednesday, accusing the ...

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