South & Central Asia

The children, who fled with their families from neighboring Myanmar to the camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, now attend about 1,500 learning centers run by UNICEF

Meanwhile, a fresh overnight insurgent attack killed at least18 Afghan security forces

American officials have recovered the bodies of two U.S. pilots from the site of Monday's military plane crash in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. It is still unclear why the plane went down in the Taliban-controlled district, but U.S. officials maintain it was not shot down, contrary to Taliban claims. VOA’s Asef Hussaini in Ghazni spoke with the province’s chief of police as well as local officials and filed this report narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.

Officials say troops also found what they believe to be plane’s flight data recorder, removing it with the remains before destroying what was left of aircraft

A local official told VOA Tuesday on condition of anonymity that insurgents raided a police post in Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province, and overran it with the help of a suspected Taliban infiltrator

Four months after the event dubbed 'Howdy Modi!,' intended to deepen relations with the wealthy Indian-American minority which has influence in India, some members of the Diaspora have been protesting against a new citizenship law

US military officials confirmed a plane went down in a Taliban-controlled part of Ghazni province but did not immediately provide additional details

Manzoor Pashteen of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) was detained along with six others in an overnight raid in the northwestern city of Peshawar, local police confirmed Monday

What happens when educational performance is adjusted for different income levels?

Protesters, carrying bodies of victims, say three women and three children belonging to same family were among those killed in the deadly overnight air force airstrike in Balkh

Program called Public Awareness on Benefits of Vaccination is helping fight this dangerous misinformation

The shutdown was the longest-ever in a democracy

Amnesty International says ‘claims of peace cannot be taken seriously as long as combatants continue to target civilians’

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are the only countries in the world where polio has not been eliminated

For more than a month the women have taken turns maintaining an around the clock sit-in on a highway that passes through their neighborhood