Until a few year ago, Malak Ziarat Gul Atmarkhel made a decent living from his businesses that crossed the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is a tribal leader of the Mohmand, a large ...

When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...

The article examines statements on Pashtun ethnicity from the original Pashto prose texts written by the Khaṯak tribal rulers Khūshḥāl Khān (d. 1689) and Afżal Khān (d. circa 1740/41) and included in ...

JANI KHEL, Pakistan -- In a desperate attempt to force authorities to take action against the Taliban, members of a Pashtun clan in western Pakistan are refusing to bury their dead and threatening to ...

The two Jews now living in Afghanistan are heirs to a 2,700-year-old Jewish presence that may include members of the tribe that makes up the ruling Taliban. Jews first came to what is now called ...

According to a report by CNN, quoting a source in Kandahar, a close aide of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is now officially siding with ethnic Pashtun tribesmen in the city. Meanwhile, ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Growing violence in the southern province of Kandahar ahead of Afghanistan's presidential election next week highlights a rift between Pashtun tribes that could tip ...

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QUETTA, Pakistan -- There is a place where Afghans who back the rebel Northern Alliance live in peace, if not exactly harmony, with countrymen who are ardent supporters of the Taliban regime. That ...

Close to a hundred Afghan Shiite Muslims were killed in attacks on mosques in October 2021. One such attack took place on Oct. 15, when a group of suicide bombers detonated explosives at a mosque in ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- Leaders of the ethnic Pashtun tribes that dominate central and southern Afghanistan expressed concern and frustration today that battlefield advances by ethnic rivals and ...