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

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In response to a clip of President Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking in Afghanistan in 1979, Yale University Law ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban advances and a shootout between gunmen from rival ethnic groups in Kabul that carried echoes of Afghanistan's 1990s civil war have underlined the threats facing President ...

An expert in Asian affairs says the U.S. is backing Tajiks in Afghanistan, though the ethnic group is roughly half the size of the country's Pashtun majority. "How are we going to build an Afghan army ...

T he rapid downturn in the Afghanistan - Pakistan relationship may have caught many observers off guard. This may appear ...

What determines how contact with the out-group affects behavior? We show experimentally that casual interethnic contact in a postconflict society can increase ethnic bias. Day laborers in Kabul, ...

While intergroup interaction is a prerequisite for initiating peace and stability, there is the risk of further escalation from direct interactions. A shortage of an impartial electronic contact ...

Originating in India in 1867, the Deobandi school of thought gradually gained widespread influence, becoming the dominant ...

The two committed to stop attacking each other after the worst outbreak of hostilities in years. But the underlying causes ...