They fled Afghanistan fearing for their lives. Young female cricketers, forced to leave with their families and establish new ...

With the advent of spring and commencement of a tree plantation campaign, experts and religious scholars stress the ...

These guitarists – 18-year-old Yasemin aka Jellybean, 16-year-old Zakia, 14-year-old Shukriya, and seven-year-old Uzra – are ...

While the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr is often a festive occasion, it can be a sombre reminder of suffering throughout the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, "Greek Tragedy," about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015.

Freckles is a male (tabby with white markings) and Fawkes is female (brown). Freckles also had dental work and we now call ...

An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released. That's according to a person ...

Faye Hall is one of four Americans known to have been released by the Taliban this year. She called on President Trump to ...

An American woman was freed by the Taliban after she, two British nationals and their Afghan translator were detained in Afghanistan earlier this year, according to a source with knowledge of the ...

Two other Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, were released from Afghanistan this year in a deal struck during the ...

Karzai’s influence is not just historical; it lies in his ability to mediate Afghanistan’s current power struggles.