After days of escalating pressure on the Iranian women’s national soccer team, a message smuggled out of Iran from a player’s family was the tipping point that sparked a daring asylum bid by five ...

The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this ...

Afghans and Pakistanis living in Iran flee US-Israeli strikes, making desperate journey through treacherous land borders.

For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban ...

A defiant song, whose lyricist is in prison for snubbing the ayatollah, plays on Jewish themes to confront authoritarian rule ...

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel of their lives, concerns, and dreams ...

By Cristina SilveiroEvery morning in Kabul, several cars make their way across the Afghan capital to pick up the producers of ...

Every morning in Kabul, several cars make their way across the Afghan capital to pick up the producers of Radio Begum. The young women do not travel to the office on their own as moving around the ...

Social protest and music go hand-in-hand, and Trump's mass deportation push and the violent tactics deployed by ICE has sparked a fresh flurry of musical resistance.

Pakistani and Afghan officials say their forces have launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes, with each side claiming to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been ...

Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further ...

Alibaba Awrang, a modern Old Master, fled from Kabul to the U.S. in 2021, bringing his modern take on Persian design.