The Taliban is largely made up of an ethnic group called the Pashtuns. They are the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan, and also have a significant presence in northwest Pakistan. NPR's John Burnett ...

Mohammad Ayaz lost two family members last summer in a clash with a rival family over an irrigation channel in southeastern Afghanistan. Ayaz lives near Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan’s ...

More than 1,000 leathery, turbaned men gathered in a cavernous village mosque Friday for a presidential campaign rally. They no longer carried rifles, and some had even brought their small sons. But ...

Since gaining power in August 2021, the Afghan Taliban, following a unique normative mixture of Pashtun culture and Islamic law, have closed universities, colleges, and secondary and primary schools ...

The Baloch National Movement (BNM) and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) held a seminar in the Netherlands for Baloch Martyrs' ...