Prashant Tamang, winner of Indian Idol 3, dies at 43 after suspected cardiac arrest Odisha plane crash: Nine-seater aircraft ...

Italian archaeologist Laura Giuliano’s curation brings together the entangled histories of India, Pakistan, China, ...

The US is suspending visa processing for 75 countries. What does this mean, when will it start and who does it affect?

Iran’s past is admired precisely because it is mummified — culturally contained and politically non-threatening. This does ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Daniyal Mueenuddin about his debut novel, "This is Where the Serpent Lives." It's a sprawling story winding through families, decades, crimes, and power in modern Pakistan.

Without Khamenei, Jalili might be president. And if a coup occurs, he or someone like him could lead it. Experts said that ...

Trump "is pressing to create the conditions for a unilateral attack to a very valuable target," one Mexican analyst told ...

Minister Mohsin Naqvi recently posted that Pakistan’s passport ranking had jumped “from 126th to 98th,” hailing it as a major ...

The state of Punjab is known as the 'Land of Five Rivers'. Learn about the five major rivers, Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab, and ...

Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is. —Carl von Clausewitz, On War North Korea is not Venezuela. While US President Donald J. Trump characterized his recent ...

Aghanistan is a country most of us would rather forget. I learnt that the hard way a couple of years ago when I returned there and suggested that the West should re-engage with the Taliban. Few wanted ...

The shift from Persia to Iran didn't happen until the year 1935. The government under Reza Shah Pahlavi asked the diplomats ...