Police and district administration officials in Landi Kotal, Khyber tribal district, arrested 12 undocumented Afghan ...

Najiba, 24, keeps a constant watch over her baby, Artiya, one of around four million children at risk of dying from ...

Michael Ben'Ary was driving one of his children to soccer practice on an October evening last year when he paused at a red ...

Deadly clashes between local residents and a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan have left four people dead and five ...

Women have been barred from most public spaces. Afghan citizens are being deported by nearby countries. And marginalized ethnic groups face persecution and violence. These are their stories. On May 8, ...

Aid agencies warned this week that Afghanistan, which is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events, is expected to remain ...

Pakistan had its deadliest year in over a decade in 2025, with combat-related deaths surging 74%, according to a new report from an independent think tank.

The twisting saga that separated the Hashemis in Oregon from their infant son has reached a new dead end: President Trump’s hold on all visas to the United States.

KABUL — A movie theatre that bore witness to Afghanistan’s modern history — from the cosmopolitan vibrancy of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one but two Taliban takeovers ...

Built during a cosmopolitan era in the 1960s, the Ariana closed when the Taliban took power, but it was still standing. Now it’s making way for a shopping mall. By Safiullah Padshah and Elian Peltier ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Through the dust kicked up by the pounding hooves of a scrum of horses and riders, a winner emerges. The victorious team gallops around the playing field, holding a flag ...