This effectively meant all work stopped on processing the paperwork of people fleeing to the U.S. because of persecution. One ...

Following a deadly ambush on a Pakistan convoy bringing supplies to Kurram, a region bordering Afghanistan, social media ...

The Taliban leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution.

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...

Book on Sale Feb. 4, preorder here In 2020, in the thick of the pandemic, travel writer and Edmonds local Rick Steves found ...

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, the fundamentalist group has banned education for women and girls post-primary school. Women cannot go to parks, and beauty salons and ...

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After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as soon as the U.S. government updated its official maps. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes ...

Although the Biden administration delayed the U.S. withdrawal by several months from the deadline detailed in the Doha ... Divergences in approaches to Afghanistan map onto wider divergences ...

You may follow him at Twitter @FidelRahmati Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, referred to a report by the World Food Programme highlighting the rise in severe hunger among ...

Secretary of State Rubio is threatening Taliban leaders with a “very big” bounty after he heard that there are more Americans being held in Afghanistan than previously known. Mr. Rubio said in a post ...