At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said. The Islamic State ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and ...

The debate was a big one in the Clark family home in Tupelo, Miss., early in 1980. Clara Clark didn’t want one of her nine ...

The World Bank’s most recent food security update shows that food price inflation rates pushed higher in 2024 in most ...

Central Asia – which includes the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – must be a ...

Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan ...

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What went awry? Putin is the main culprit for Russia’s return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West. But ...

Russians who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan came home to silence and stigma. There’s a very public push to make things ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans detained in Afghanistan for Afghans in U.S. custody, a senior Taliban leader with direct ...