Few doubt the popular prime minister will win a third term in voting that starts Friday. His strong hand is just what many Indians seem to want.

Shah Marai was Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer in Kabul. He supported five blind relatives as he focused his camera on the human suffering around him.

They were scholarship students in the 1970s, and now they are all at center stage of the drama surrounding American talks with the Taliban.

A retired Afghan wrestler was often one of the first responders helping Shiites targeted in Kabul. He was among 60 people killed in the latest attack.

For more than 50 years, Haidari Wujodi’s desk in a Kabul library has been a stop for those seeking escape from the violence outside.

Mistrust runs deep between the nuclear-armed neighbors, but Pakistan had a low-key response to what India called a “technical malfunction.” No casualties were reported.

The Afghan government and the Taliban are finally coming to the table, after repeated delays. But the violence continues, and the challenges are vast.

Bilal, 6, and his family were forced to go to a place only his grandfather had called home: Afghanistan. Then came the day his only friend was gone.

The fighters hold the line in the war’s toughest spots, but officials say their brutal tactics are terrorizing the public and undermining the U.S. mission.

The journalist Samim Faramarz, who eloquently voiced the frustrations of Afghans losing hope in the face increasing violence, lost his life while reporting a double bombing.

The body of Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner killed in Afghanistan, was unrecognizable when it was brought to a Kandahar hospital, one official said.

Ten members of one family – including seven children – are dead after a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, a relative of the dead told CNN.

Networker, survivor, Afghanistan's former leader, Hamid Karzai

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo failed to persuade rival Afghan leaders to support a unified government, which American diplomats consider crucial to preventing peace negotiations from falling apart.

The Taliban stand on the brink of realizing their most fervent desire: U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan. They have given up little of their extremist ideology to do it.

A teenage Afghan girl was celebrated for killing Taliban who attacked her home. But the story of her heroism is steeped in pain, and reveals the complicated crosscurrents of the Afghan War.

The president cast the death of the ISIS leader as validation of his disengagement strategy. But it required intelligence agencies and allies he has spurned.

In a devastating attack on the eve of the Afghan election, militants killed a longtime nemesis, the regional police chief in Kandahar.

A day after gunmen stormed a maternity ward and slaughtered new mothers at random, the authorities struggled to reconnect their children with families.

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.

UP Higher Education Services Commission names Syed Akbar Hussain, popular as Akbar Allahabadi, as Akbar Prayagraj on website. Names of poets Rashid Allahabadi & Tegh Allahabadi changed too.

In their first statement since taking control, the Taliban hinted at a rule unlike their brutal regime a generation ago, trying to placate skeptics.

President Trump made the decision at the same time he decided he was pulling American forces out of Syria, one official said.

مقام‌های محلی بامیان گفته اند که در روزهای عید قربان حدود ۱۰۰ هزار گردشگر از بند امیر ن و بیش از ۱۰ هزار گردشگر دیگر از ساحات باستانی مرکز شهر بامیان دیدن کرده اند.

A Times correspondent reflects on what he’s learned from growing up with and reporting on the extremists in Afghanistan for some 25 years.

The ambitious project to meet a dire need shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strengths and helps explain his popularity despite a weakened economy.

Violence against women is rampant in Afghanistan. For some, murdering their husbands was the only way they could escape their abusive marriages.