ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Facing summary execution by his Taliban captors last month, Afghan opposition leader Abdul Haq -- a man who was said to have possessed a finely developed sense of irony -- might ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In response to a clip of President Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking in Afghanistan in 1979, Yale University Law ...

The Afghanistan national flag waving. At its founding, the Taliban was mainly comprised of Pashtuns, the dominant Afghan ethnic group. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons During the Chinese civil war ...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - The foreign minister of the Afghan northern alliance said Tuesday that it had invited all the country's factions - except the Taliban - to come to newly captured Kabul to ...

(Reuters) - After his inauguration on Thursday, re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would organise a "loya jirga" -- a large assembly of Afghan leaders. Loya jirgas have ...

There are several issues with enumerating Afghanistan’s population, starting with the fact that there hasn’t been an actual census in over four decades.

The top CSTO diplomats noted the significance of shaping an inclusive Afghan government that will represent the interests of all social and ethnic groups, implement its obligations to ensure basic ...

Apart from 29 million Uzbeks living in Uzbekistan, there are almost 3 million ethnic Uzbeks in neighboring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and another 2 to 4 million ethnic ...

While intergroup interaction is a prerequisite for initiating peace and stability, there is the risk of further escalation from direct interactions. A shortage of an impartial electronic contact ...