He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Afghanistan, now under the Taliban, is no longer a conflict begging to be solved with a deal. It needs a more nuanced ...

This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital ... (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) Egeland said Afghan women and girls had ...

Around 260 Afghan girls graduated today from the Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani religious school in Kabul. Access to higher education for Afghan women has been restricted since the Taliban came to power in ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

In the aftermath of the Kargil War, Muzzamil Hussain's family unearthed a treasure of Silk Road artefacts in their ancestral property near Kargil's bazaar.

Concerns persist over recent and potential conflicts in the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war and potential conflagrations ...

Sussex’s very own ‘rug hunter’ travels to the weaving countries along the Silk Road to find the best hand-made rugs to bring back to ...

After the Taliban seized Kabul, Afghanistan staggered under the weight of sanctions and other kinds of economic and diplomatic isolation. Other governments failed to act with sufficient speed and ...

World’s most dangerous countries to visit in 2025 - No country saw their security risk decrease in the past 12 months, says ...

Map locates Bazarak in the Panjshir Province of Afghanistan, and Kabul ... has shrunk by 26 percent over the past two years, the World Bank reported in April. The sharp decline in international ...

Millions of people from the poor world are trying to cross seas, forests, valleys and rivers, in search of safety, work and ...