The Afghan defence ministry ... The border runs through tribal areas mostly populated by Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group living on both sides. Pakistan has promised to finish building a ...

While its membership is drawn from Afghanistan's major ethnic groups (Pashtun, Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek, and one religious minority, Shia), and it is led by the southern Pashtun leader Hamid ...

Ethnic tensions in Afghanistan have been exacerbated by nearly a decade of conflict between armed factions rooted in different ethnic, religious, and tribal groups. Human Rights Watch has reported ...

These families were reported to be between four and ten members each, from the Hazara ethnic group living in the Persian-speaking central region of Afghanistan. Behind the initiative was reported ...

An Afghan women’s cricket team is set to play its first match in years. It could put pressure on the International Cricket ...

An Afghan women's group is welcoming the decision by the International Criminal Court to arrest Taliban leaders for their ...