Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai created a flutter by calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools to girls during a ...

A sled dog jumps with excitement as his team prepares to start the Upper Green River leg of the 2005 International Pedigree ...

The problem of extremism in Pakistan dates back to the 1980s when the country, with the backing of the United States, engaged itself in the war between the erstwhile Soviet Union and Afghanistan. This ...

On March 14, 1980 the U.S. amateur boxing team was flying from New York to Poland for international ... Two months later, the U.S. decided to boycott the Olympics due to the Soviet Union’s invasion of ...

The group originally drew its members from the “mujahideen” fighters who, with support from the United States, successfully repelled Soviet forces in the 1980s. Within just two years, the Taliban ...

Advocates worry about the future of a decades-old program that has served as a lifeline for refugees displaced by war and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A Chinese man was killed as he traveled ...

Taliban authorities in northeastern Afghanistan said Wednesday that a gun attack resulted in the death of a Chinese national, while his local interpreter escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based ...

"The federal government sent them overseas to Afghanistan," Hynes told CBC News. "[They] put them in harm's way, and they are responsible for ensuring that they have access to the benefits and ...

The U.S. secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in former President Joe Biden’s final hours in office in exchange for the release of an Afghan Taliban member in U.S. custody ...

Don't ban the Afghanistan men's side from playing international cricket but do expect them to do more for the women and girls who don't have the same rights they do. That's the opinion of two ...

An Afghan police official says a Chinese citizen has been killed in the country's northeast A Chinese man was killed in northeastern Afghanistan, a Taliban police spokesman said Wednesday.