Afghanistan’s deepest struggle is not foreign invasion, but building an inclusive state across ethnic fault lines ...

MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) – Patrolling in all-terrain vehicles that whip up clouds of dust, members of Afghanistan’s elite Civil Order Police might be viewed as outsiders here in southern Helmand ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan hopes to persuade Afghan insurgent groups, including the lethal Haqqani network, to pursue peace but worries resistance from political factions opposed to the Taliban could ...