Big dreams are reflected in the azure shimmer of these pristine mountain lakes: Afghanistan’s quixotic ambitions of becoming a tourist paradise. With the dedication last week of the country&#… ...

Kandahar is deep in Afghanistan’s “Pushtun Belt.” Pushtuns, who make up the country’s largest ethnic group and were the Taliban’s chief supporters, are Sunni Muslims.

Afghanistan’s ethnic divide also runs along a linguistic fault line, with the Pashto language of the Pashtuns pitted against the more widely spoken Dari (a Persian dialect).

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 ...

Ethnic divisions are so deep in Afghanistan, the diplomat added, that if the Karzai government were to fall, civil conflict might resume almost immediately.

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 ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan plan to use Google Maps to help settle a border dispute that led to deadly clashes last week, officials from both sides said Monday.

A U.K.-based rights group is launching an interactive map documenting human rights abuses and violence against civilians since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan nearly two years ago ...

The situation is a reminder of how fragile Afghanistan's ethnic and sectarian balance remains less than a year before all foreign forces are to leave the country.