While the world focuses on the end game in Afghanistan, multiple crises brewing in a neighboring region have the potential to spoil international efforts to stabilize the country. Extremist groups, ...

Quetta, Pakistan — Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks on Monday and security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days of ...

For the past month, severe floods have ravaged the province of Sistan and Baluchistan in Iran, impacting the health and livelihoods of tens of thousands of residents. In early March, following days of ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Multiple attacks in Pakistan’s restive southwest have killed at least 38 people, the highest death toll in a 24-hour period blamed on separatists in Baluchistan province in recent ...

The Hellfire missile that incinerated Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour on May 21 set a major new precedent: It marked the first time we know of that a U.S. drone strike was used in the Pakistani ...

Iranian security forces have barred Molavi Abdolhamid, Iran's top Sunni cleric, from visiting areas affected by recent floods in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, while also detaining two of his children, ...

In a shocking statement, a representative of the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province in the Supreme Council of Provinces (SCP) says, “The drought has impoverished the people of the province to ...

An Iranian police officer was killed and two others injured in an armed attack in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, local police said on Friday. According to Iran's semi-official ...

“Once Were Nomads: Textiles and Culture in Baluchistan” uses textiles to examine the traditional life and culture of the peoples that make their home in the Baluchistan region. Baluchistan literally ...

Iran is among the Middle East’s most diverse countries in terms of ethnicity, language, and religion. Because Iran consolidated as a nation before the rise of ethno-nationalist states, it has a solid ...

When the world looks at Pakistan, its attention justifiably focuses on the rugged northern border with Afghanistan, a nexus of Taliban activity and the site of an ongoing multi-pronged campaign ...