A group of Afghan teenage girls once found hope through music. They were then forced to escape Taliban rule and take refuge ...

What Afghanistan offers is simple but game-changing: it cuts travel time between Russia and South Asia from 30 days down to ...

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the death of Pope Francis, the ranks of armchair Vatican experts have ...

Maria Abi-Habib was a roving Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, focused on terrorism issues and jihadist groups such as al Qaeda and Islamic State. She had been based in Beirut and ...

Gordon Lubold - profile from The Wall Street Journal. News, articles, biography and photos.

Russia's cautious and slow-moving rapprochement with the Taliban, which Moscow had outlawed as a terrorist group in 2003 ...

Nearly a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin called Afghanistan’s Taliban an “ally” in countering terrorism, Moscow ...

An estimated 7000 students marched the CBD streets today with Mackay RSL Sub-branch President Ken Higgins claiming it as “one ...

GOWARJAN: In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they ...

KABUL (Pajhwok) Sanga Hotak is a remarkable teenage girl from Kabul who lost her eyesight in a childhood accident. Yet, she ...

A 30-year-old British man's account of an 11-day trip to Afghanistan, including a supposed romantic encounter with a Taliban ...

A man shows a Persian language version of a Chinese book at a bookstore in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 22, 2025. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua) The culture ...