Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan are on the boil following a major military escalation involving cross-border airstrikes and heavy clashes leading to casualties on both sides and the closure ...

In Afghanistan today, many women still lack access to even a basic phone or reliable Internet connection, while others face ...

"Listen to all their (Congress') speeches from the Red Fort, all of them were about the poor. But they couldn't reduce ...

Fierce fighting has broken out in at least five locations, with multiple soldiers killed, in a flare-up of violence between ...

Dozens of people have been killed and injured in fighting between Pakistan and Afghan forces. Taliban Destroys Friendship ...

The series of quakes, which began in early October 2025, flattened entire villages, killed thousands, and displaced tens of ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday condemned the world's failure to stop millions of people from going hungry, blaming a "soulless ...

Women have been barred from most public spaces. Afghan citizens are being deported by nearby countries. And marginalized ...

Afghanistan today faces a maternal health crisis that is as much political as it is medical. When girls are banned from studying beyond grade 6, nursing and midwifery schools are shuttered, and female ...

In a forceful speech on Oct. 16 to the general assembly of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Pope Leo XIV ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at setbacks to the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal, NATO military aid pledges ...