They called Afghanistan ‘the place where empires go to die,’ and Iran is very similar in that terrain. You put boots on the ground in Iran, and we're in for a lot of pain.” ...

Explore Iranian culture and history through seven essential books, from Persepolis to Shah of Shahs, offering insights into this ancient civilisation. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this ...

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan, Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb, visited the Iranian embassy in Islamabad on Friday to express condolences over the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali ...

As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan's defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad's Afghanistan policy appears under ...

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 ...

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Few places on earth so revere martyrdom as Iran. I came to that conclusion during a visit to the country in 2002, not long after the Sept. 11 attack on the United States. In my book, “Martyrs: ...

In his new book, The Golden Road, he traces the vast networks of trade, scholarship, faith and artistic imagination that once ...

An interview with Sana Atef, a reporter with the Zan Times who covers the lives and work of women in Afghanistan.

Afghan women writers defy suppression by the Taliban, using literature as a means of resistance. Despite bans and restrictions, they tell compelling stories that reclaim agency. Through collective ...