Many, if not most ethnic maps of Afghanistan, for example, display the Pashtun belt as sort of “U” shaped, with Pashtuns forming the majority in western Afghanistan interspersed with patches ...

The largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, estimated at around 45% of the population and mostly concentrated in the south and east of the country, are the Sunni Muslim Pashtun.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — The sunbaked, shell-pocked ruins of west Kabul stand as silent testament to what happened the last time Afghanistan splintered along ethnic lines. The country ...

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 ...

In 2001, fearing ethnic strife, the international community pushed for a strong central government in Kabul. But such fears were based on a false reading of Afghan history and fostered a system of ...

nti-Taliban ethnic and tribal groups are set to meet in Bonn, Germany, Tuesday to begin working out arrangements under United Nations auspices for a broad-based interim government in Afghanistan ...

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 ...