A language dispute has erupted in Afghanistan after the BBC labeled the Facebook page of its local service BBC Dari, a name rejected by Afghan Persian speakers who prefer their language to be ...

Afghanistan has two nationally recognized official languages: Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language ...

The four-part series looks at six decades of Afghan history through those who were there. Afghanistan: The Wounded Land - Part 4: Trap | Preview After 9/11, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.

In a further sign that the U.S. military wants to forget that the Afghanistan War ever happened, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California will cease teaching ...

Hakimeh Rahimi wanted to pursue a career in textiles and dreamt of being a fashion designer, but as a child became a refugee ...

The Taliban’s anti-Persian stance is rooted in their educational and cultural background, but also reflects a longstanding desire by successive Afghan governments to displace the Persian language.

The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has worsened since U.S. forces withdrew in 2021. For Afghans applying for asylum, the process is proving increasingly difficult, and technology is causing ...

How a young, deaf refugee from Afghanistan found her voice in Chicago Mahbuba, who’s now 6 years old, arrived at a Chicago school with no previous exposure to formal sign language. What she’s ...

What the Taliban Told Me," by Ian Fritz is a gripping coming-of-age memoir that traces his time as a young U.S. airborne cryptologic linguist in Afghanistan.

Hazaras, Tajiks, and many other Afghan minorities speak Dari – the Afghan dialect of Persian – as a first or second language. Dari has long functioned as a lingua franca in Afghanistan, a ...

Afghan women stuck under Taliban rule are being barred from reuniting with their British husbands because they cannot meet the English language standards needed to come to the UK.