An Afghan official says at least 11 people have been killed in a roadside bombing in the country's north. Ahmad Javid Besharat, the spokesman for the police of Baghlan Province, said the bomb struck a ...

Farmers across Central and South Asia are struggling to save their crops from the largest invasion of locusts in more than 20 years. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning that ...

Farmers in Afghanistan are growing poppies in government-controlled areas, insisting that there are no real economic alternatives to cultivating the flowers for the opium trade. It's estimated that ...

A new study reports that the coronavirus can live on some surfaces for up to three days -- confirming doctors' advice that washing one's hands frequently is a crucial step to help avoid infection.

The works of a well-known Kabul artist have been destroyed in a grenade attack on her studio. Rubaba Mahammadi made a name for herself as a teenager, painting portraits of famous foreigners such as ...

The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, John Bass, has welcomed the release of three Taliban prisoners by the Afghan government and called on the Taliban to release Western hostages in return.

Hundreds of migrants stranded in a camp in the Bosnian forest are at risk as the Balkan winter approaches, aid workers say. 1 Migrants on a road near the Vucjak refugee camp in Bihac, ...

Some clerics say the Koran forbids tattoos, but that hasn't stopped a growing number of young people in Kabul from getting inked. One tattoo artist says the trend actually has roots in Afghan ...

A small Tajik boy who contracted polio and could hardly walk has turned into a man who impresses everyone with his strength as he gets around everywhere on his hands.

Khadeja was badly scarred after her husband threw boiling water over her. He was detained but released without charge. Human rights activists say violence against women continues to go unpunished, and ...

Pakistan has embraced social media influencers to boost tourism, but critics say young, Western vloggers paint a naive picture of the country ignoring its conservative culture and the dangers of ...

Afghan Jan Agha has hunted cranes since his childhood. He uses a tethered crane as a lure to trap other birds, with the cranes sold at market, mostly for meat. He's one of many Afghans who live from ...