Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Thursday that the Taliban have severely undermined media freedom in Afghanistan by closing major news outlets and subjecting remaining ones to surveillance and ...

Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power ...

They were sent with 400 other people fleeing war and repression in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, China and Sudan, and were among ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan will be holding their second round of talks in Istanbul today with Islamabad saying it looks forward ...

Ten months after rebels toppled the long-entrenched Assad regime, little-checked bloodshed has led many Syrians to abandon ...

It’s time for another Asian cricket showdown in the form of the Asia Cup Rising Stars Championship, the newly rebranded ...

A man has been charged following a triple stabbing that left a dog walker dead in west London. Afghan national Safi Dawood, ...

The victim, named locally as Wayne Broadhurst, 49, was stabbed in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge, at 17:00 GMT on Monday, and ...

The tournament, earlier known as the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup, will be played in the T20 format ...

BBC Verify has been analysing satellite imagery throughout the day, first examining flooding in Mexico and later strike ...

A man stabbed in an attack that left a dog walker dead was saved by his next door neighbours who rushed out armed with baseball bats to fend off the knifeman. The 45-year-old man suffered ...

In the 13 years since Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban on her school bus in Pakistan for speaking out ...