​Maulana Yasoob Abbas, a member of the All India Shia Personal Law Board, echoed Khan's views. "We follow the law of the prophet of Islam and his daughter, Fatima, who looked at men and women as ...

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official ...

President Trump froze a program to allow Afghans who had worked with American troops to come to the United States. Now Congress has quietly scrapped the visas, leaving little hope of reviving them. By ...

Mehr Mumtaz receives funding from the Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Grant, and the Mershon Center for International Security's Graduate Research Grant. In January 2025, Seema received an email ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In the sprawling fruit market in this northwestern Pakistani city, Imran has spent the past several months waiting for shipments that aren’t arriving. The crates of Afghan walnuts ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Afghan Whigs will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band with an anniversary tour that will stop at The House of Blues Cleveland on Tuesday, May 5, with Mercury Rev opening.

Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which has banned music. A new policy of deportations by Pakistan threatens this community of exiles. By Elian Peltier Visuals by Asim ...

Veterans say immigration crackdowns and politics around the shooting of two National Guardsmen in November has led to “wholesale punishment” against Afghan allies still in that country who once aided ...

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to bring the Taliban to heel. This deterioration is striking, given Islamabad’s ...

Magnus Marsden has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for ...

Welcoming Afghan refugees used to be a rare point of unity for Republicans and Democrats. But in the aftermath of a deadly shooting last month, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his GOP challenger, U.S. Rep.

U.S. officials rushed Mohammad Nabi onto a plane out of Afghanistan so quickly in 2021 that he didn’t have time to bring his passport, his wife or his eight children. More than four years later, the ...