Dari
Dari, a language of Indo-Iranian origin, is one of the official languages spoken in Afghanistan (Pashto is the other official language of Afghanistan). Dari is a dialect of Farsi (or Persian), th...
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PARIS, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The worldwide media watchdog
Reporters without Borders (RsF) called on Kabul on Thursday to
save an Afghan journalist whom religious leaders want executed
and release a m...
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Spectators and racers paid tribute Sunday to three pilots who were killed in crashes during competition last week at the Reno National Championship Air Races.A moment of silence was held at Stead A...
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Colombian female guerrilla
wanted in the United States for the kidnapping of three
Americans and trafficking cocaine has been captured by the army
near Venezuela's border, aut...
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Four suspected kidnappers were captured Monday as Afghan police freed a German aid worker who had been snatched from a restaurant while she ate with her husband, officials said.Hundreds of police f...
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A facility to protect abused children in the Afghan capital of
Kabul has been completed thanks partially to a legacy of a Japanese
harpist who once served as music tutor for Japanese Empress ...
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Baghdad (dpa) - US forces in Iraq conducted an anti-extremist raid
in Baghdad's mainly Shiite Sadr City suburb on Thursday, with US
claims of having killed three terrorist s...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH TALIBAN'S FRESH DEMAND)
South Korea said Thursday it has confirmed one of the 23 South
Korean hostages seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan is dead, while
an Afghan in Ka...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH HOSTAGE'S REMARKS)
South Korea said Thursday it has confirmed one of the 23 South
Korean hostages seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan is dead, while
an Afghan in Kabul s...
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Kabul (dpa) - Afghan security forces overnight Sunday freed a
German woman abducted a day earlier, the Afghan Interior Ministry and
police in Kabul confirmed to Deutsche Pre...
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