While the world focuses on the end game in Afghanistan, multiple crises brewing in a neighboring region have the potential to spoil international efforts to stabilize the country. Extremist groups, ...

Pakistan, May 31 -- The recent attack on a train in Quetta has once again brought into focus a question that should not ...

For the past month, severe floods have ravaged the province of Sistan and Baluchistan in Iran, impacting the health and livelihoods of tens of thousands of residents. In early March, following days of ...

Quetta, Pakistan — Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks on Monday and security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days of ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Multiple attacks in Pakistan’s restive southwest have killed at least 38 people, the highest death toll in a 24-hour period blamed on separatists in Baluchistan province in recent ...

The Hellfire missile that incinerated Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour on May 21 set a major new precedent: It marked the first time we know of that a U.S. drone strike was used in the Pakistani ...

In a shocking statement, a representative of the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province in the Supreme Council of Provinces (SCP) says, “The drought has impoverished the people of the province to ...

Iran is among the Middle East’s most diverse countries in terms of ethnicity, language, and religion. Because Iran consolidated as a nation before the rise of ethno-nationalist states, it has a solid ...

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A low-level separatist insurgency and fears of the spread of Taliban militancy are likely to keep a lid on foreign investment in the rich gas and mineral resources of ...

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Naimatullah Gichki prays his party can win Saturday's election and stop shadowy death squads killing members of his ethnic group in Pakistan's southwestern province of ...