Fudan University's Christoph Nedopil Wang explains his latest research on the Belt and Road Initiative adapting to growing economic risk and why Chinese investment is falling in Russia and Pakistan.

The Taliban has said it has a right to crack down on dissent and to jail protesters amid international concerns about the whereabouts of two women activists who were reportedly detained earlier this ...

The rising number of executions of former army and police in Afghanistan is being taken as clear evidence that the Taliban is not living up to its pledges of a general amnesty for all members of the ...

RFE/RL's Radio Azadi is one of the most popular and trusted media outlets in Afghanistan. Nearly half of the country's adult audience accesses Azadi's reporting on a weekly basis.

A humanitarian crisis is brewing along Pakistan's southwestern border with Iran after Islamabad closed the border indefinitely while it builds a fence. Thousands of fuel carriers are trapped in the ...

Analysts say the planned unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan by September is a major victory for the Taliban.

In villages and towns across Afghanistan, grieving families mourning the loss of fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands in the country's fratricidal war are united in demanding peace for their country.

One year after the disappearance of human rights activist Idris Khattak, the Pakistani authorities have allowed him to see his daughter. Talia Khattak, 20, says she was contacted last month about the ...

Saudi Arabia has boasted of its “huge” reforms of the labor market aimed at restructuring the harsh sponsorship rules that are often blamed for the exploitation and abuse of millions of foreign ...

A spate of deadly urban attacks in Afghanistan has highlighted possible rifts between the Taliban leadership and the allied Haqqani network, the lethal arm of the militant group.

An offensive by Afghanistan’s Taliban militants appears to be aimed at reclaiming Afghanistan’s second city, which once served as the capital for the hard-line movement nearly a quarter-century ago.

Mohammad Sadiq Rashtinai is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan in Kandahar.