Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced plans to transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims into a sovereign state ...

Besides imposing severe rules on women, new laws require men to grow fist-length beards and bar them from imitating ...

A British doctor who carried out life-saving work in Afghanistan said it will "make a significant difference" to the ...

It is profoundly misguided for Australia to see the Ukraine war as a faraway conflict in which we do not have a direct ...

The Afghan Taliban have commenced an aggressive attempt to thrust aside and silence critical Afghan voices in international ...

As the power of the "morality police" in Afghanistan grows, so do the restrictions on individual freedoms - "Should we have ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announces plans to grant sovereignty to Bektashi Muslims in Tirana, promoting tolerance and ...

By Emma Collet in Termez Uzbekistan is once again asserting itself as one of the most active countries in Central Asia in its ...

By bne Tehran bureau Suhail Shaheen, head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, has criticised the exclusion of the ...

A roadside blast caused by an improvised explosive device, targeting a convoy of foreign diplomats, killed a policeman and ...

Security personnel examine the site of a bomb explosion, at Malam Jabba in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ...

Disputes over national anthems and flags often reflect deeper political tensions.