It is a significant move given that the Haqqani network is accused of carrying out some of the most high-profile and deadly attacks in Afghanistan during the US-led war in the country.

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

While Chinese investment is rising, particularly in the mining sector, the operations face both local pushback and logistical ...

Hecker’s story is a grizzly odyssey. The book is full of crisp soundbites. One I liked best, towards the end of the book, quotes someone saying that Russia has become, not an emerging economy, but a ...

Now, as internal divisions shake the regime, there is a real chance that the ban on girls’ education may finally be lifted.

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Russia remains a rogue player on the international sporting stage. There’s no reason to start playing games with its athletes ...

The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

When Andrew Sullivan thinks of the people his organization has helped resettle in America, one particular story comes to mind: an Afghan man in a wheelchair who was shot through the ...

The country’s former tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are plagued by escalating militancy, leading to widespread ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...