Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage ...

In 1985, seven South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka — came ...

A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint ...

Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

Back in 1984, Steve McCurry took a photograph of a young girl in Pakistan. The photo of the Afghan refugee went on to become ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

There's a heartbreaking truth behind an infamous photo taken over 40 years ago, and it will change the way you look at it ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of Afghans returning in adverse circumstances from Iran, warning that returns on a massive scale have the potential to ...

Amid battles and food insecurity across Sudan, many people are turning to weeds and wild plants to sustain them.

Afghanistan is rapidly constructing the Qosh Tepa Canal, a waterway meant to help irrigate more than 500,000 hectares of its arid northern regions, for which it will redirect 20–30% of the Amu ...

Today, Afghanistan is estimated to hold nearly $1 trillion worth of mineral reserves. This includes 60 million tons of copper, 183 million tons of aluminum and 2.2 billion tons of iron ore.