Stories from South Asia
Thousands of people gathered in Kabul on Friday to protest over the recount of votes in the presidential election held on September 28. Most of the demonstrators were supporters of Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s current chief executive and one of […]
A plan to free an Australian teacher held captive for three years in Afghanistan was ditched at the 11th hour after the Taliban reneged on promises made in a prisoner swap deal, officials have revealed. Last week, Afghan President Ashraf […]
After days of speculation, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirmed that the government has decided to free convicted terrorist Anas Haqqani in exchange for two foreign nationals, who were abducted in 2016. In a statement, Mr. Ghani announced that the Afghan […]
On Oct. 24, a video surfaced on Afghan social media, showing a former fighter of the Islamic State surrendering to the Afghan government. The man, who claimed to be Jordanian, says that he came to this country looking for jihad. “On […]
On October 26, the U.S. announced that the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed, in an apparent suicide detonation during a raid at his house in Idlib, Syria. Baghdadi was the leader of the IS insurgency since its […]