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.” ...

In his new book, The Golden Road, he traces the vast networks of trade, scholarship, faith and artistic imagination that once connected the Indian subcontinent to Central Asia, the Mediterranean and f ...

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 patriarchal society but now appears to be happening with some frequency.