More than 80 people have died in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province this past week, residents and activists say, in clashes between antiestablishment demonstrators and security forces.

For many Finns, Russia’s assault on Ukraine recalled the 1939 Soviet invasion of their homeland. Fear of another attack was enough to dismantle Helsinki’s seven-decade strategy of heavily armed...

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iran’s most celebrated contemporary singer whose appeal cut across generations and political leanings in Iran, died at a hospital in Tehran at the age of 80.

Gasser får aflivede mink til at svulme op og trænge op igennem jordoverfladen.

Authorities say they have issued indictments of more than 1,000 people in Tehran alone, and on Sunday a judge in the southern province of Hormozgan said that 164 more protesters would be charged with...

The reliance on Palestinian data is a partial shift by the Biden administration.

A U.S. drone struck a vehicle packed with explosives in a residential area of Kabul, preventing an imminent attack on the city’s airport, the Pentagon said.

Shah Marai was Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer in Kabul. He supported five blind relatives as he focused his camera on the human suffering around him.

As it seeks acceptance from the international community, the group is seeking to curb the country’s output of narcotics and other drugs.

“Three Songs for Benazir” tries to avoid politics even as the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan looms over the film.

Efter et liv fyldt med drama i musik og tilværelsen er det morddømte producergeni Phil Spector død af Covid-19. Tilbage står ruinerne af den Wall of Sound, han byggede om et evigt teenageværelse med...

The Taliban are asserting control over nongovernmental organizations working in Afghanistan, demanding a greater say over who receives aid and the staff NGOs hire, jeopardizing lifesaving deliveries...

The deep disaffection the demonstrations represent and the fact that they target a key pillar of the Islamic Republic and its foundational ideology make them a significant test.

In the part of the country that saw the heaviest fighting, airstrikes have ceased and improvised mines have been defused. Residents are returning to the Taliban-controlled regions after years of...

Mohammed, his wife, and their four children are hiding from the Taliban and are among countless Afghan allies who were left behind when the U.S. ended its 20-year military campaign in Afghanistan on...

Taliban officials said girls may return to school once security concerns allow, echoing their de facto ban on girls’ education in the 1990s.

One of the worst droughts in decades is compounding the economic crisis that deepened when the Taliban overthrew the previous government.

Accounts from people living under Taliban rule, as well as insurgents themselves, suggest that the group’s governance is as ruthless as ever and, with decades of experience, also more adept.

Taliban officials said girls may return to school once security concerns allow, echoing their de facto ban on girls’ education in the 1990s.

Finnish political parties gathered to discuss joining NATO, in another sign of the tectonic shifts in Europe’s security landscape prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

After Mykola Kulichenko was taken from his village in Ukraine, interrogated, beaten and left for dead, he still had to get back home. His account is among many war-crimes cases Ukrainian prosecutors...

A record number of expulsions add to the tension on the Iranian-Afghan border months after the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul.

The Taliban have arrested Faizullah Jalal, a Kabul university professor who gained national fame for berating a senior official on television, in a sign of the intensifying crackdown on critics of...

Photographer Fatimah Hossaini spent three years trying to upend Western narratives about women in her country. She didn't get to finish her work.

Iran’s ally Hezbollah is paying former U.S.-backed rebels to join its force in southern Syria, deepening its presence near Israel’s border after appearing to withdraw to avoid Israeli airstrikes.

A Danish court sentenced a Norwegian-Iranian man to prison for espionage and plotting the assassination of an Iranian dissident with suspected links to Saudi Arabia, a fresh twist in a contest...

Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree's extramarital romance scandalised the city, but their collection of documents now forms the heart of the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University