Attan historically originated as a war dance among the Pashtun tribes that now straddle Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today Attan is often performed at weddings and other celebrations. Some tribal ...

The mountainous province of Badakhshan in northeastern Afghanistan evaded Taliban rule when the hard-line Islamist movement dominated the rest of the country in the 1990s. Today, however, the Taliban ...

ASADABAD, Afghanistan -- Tribal leaders in a remote alpine valley in eastern Afghanistan say Taliban and Islamic State (IS) militants are using large-scale logging to fund their violent campaigns.

HERAT, -- Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region. Its monuments and properties have either fallen into ...

Years ago, Pakistan declared victory against the Taliban after large-scale military operations in a northwestern mountainous region. But the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the formal name of the ...

KABUL/HERAT -- Basira Akhtar, a student at Kabul University, Afghanistan’s largest and oldest public university, says she is a victim of the rising extremism at her institution. The 22-year-old fourth ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently visited Bannu, a bustling city in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province -- the gateway to Waziristan. The vast tribal region borders southeastern ...

LASHKARGAH, Afghanistan — Jan Agha, a young Afghan farmer in the restive southern province of Helmand, is contemplating something no other agriculturist has attempted in the vast region bordering ...

ASADABAD, Afghanistan -- After living through insurgent attacks, government crackdowns, night raids, and airstrikes for generations, residents of a remote mountainous region in Afghanistan have a new ...

A new movement demanding security for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority is transforming into a nationalist struggle with long-term consequences for the country’s politics, security, society, and ...

During their rule in the 1990s, Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban banned photography, television, and the Internet by declaring that taking pictures of living things was forbidden in Islam. But two ...

GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- In a reminder that Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban movement is hoping to revive its harsh rule from a quarter-century ago, residents and officials in a southeast Afghan ...