Born in Kabul, he is half-Pashtun and half-Tajik, the second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. But Abdullah's affiliation with Massoud, who was a Tajik, makes him suspect to many Pashtuns.

Dozens of ethnic Kyrgyz have sold their homes and livestock in Afghanistan's remote Wakhan Corridor and are seeking help from Kyrgyzstan to repatriate them to their ancestral homeland. The Kyrgyz ...

Whoever wins the Afghan presidential election will face the difficult challenge of trying to unite a country riven by ethnic, religious, regional and tribal rivalries into one nation under a strong ...