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Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has become the first Asian former head of state to be taken into custody by the ...

Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

A January 2025 SIGAR report emphasized that the Taliban—whom the US does not recognize as Afghanistan’s government and has ...

The customary sexual - and not only - abuse of young boys in Afghanistan - Children as young as 10 years old are dressed in women's clothes and turned into sex slaves for the country's elite ...

Here’s a look at Bowe Bergdahl, former American prisoner of war. Personal Birth date: March 28, 1986 Birth place: Sun Valley, Idaho Birth name: Beaudry Robert Bergdahl Father: Robert Bergdahl Mother: ...

The barbaric tradition, whose name translates to 'boy play', has persisted for centuries. Afghanistan's current Taliban ...

One of the keys to the Taliban success was they offered an alternative. They said, “Look, the mujahedeen fought heroically to liberate your country but have now turned it into a war zone. We offer ...

A call from Helmand on February 29, 2020, underscored the shock and uncertainty felt in Afghanistan over the deal.

A suicide bombing ripped through Pakistan’s Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary last week. It would soon celebrate 200 years of ...

Critics say the government is failing Afghans at risk of deportation back to the Taliban-led country. Pakistani officials have set a deadline to expel foreign nationals living illegally in the ...

People have faced the cruel penalty of having a wall toppled on them for 'moral' crimes, in accordance with the government's ...