For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban ...

Since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, the rights of women and girls have been brutally stripped away.

There is something profoundly defiant, almost incendiary, about Afghan women writers. When the Taliban regained control of Kabul in August 2021, images of women protesting in the streets and girls ...

It’s fashionable to hate Dubai. Especially among those who haven’t been to the Persian Gulf boomtown, or only visited for a glimpse of the mandatory tourist highlights — the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, ...

In Kabul and other cities, the closure of girls’ secondary schools and women’s university access reshapes daily life—from ...

In the early 2000s, Myanmar’s military government built a brand-new capital city called Naypyidaw, a massive project rumored to cost around $4 billion. The city features enormous boulevards, luxury ...

I sympathize with those Iranians, because I’ve seen the oppression firsthand in my own reporting in Iran over the years: police officers swooping in on my interviews; security thugs shouting at women ...

Pakistani and Afghan officials say their forces have launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes, with each side claiming to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been ...

Our correspondents discuss the challenges of Mexico’s war on drug cartels. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. The ...

More than 8,000 Afghans have been forced from their homes by fighting with Pakistani forces along the border in recent days, ...