Shashank Bengali

At 22, Wahabba Husain had never worn a headscarf. As she walked into the classroom at Al-Huda, an all-female Pakistani institute for Islamic studies, on a December afternoon in 2014,...

He came from a family of pilots. One uncle was an air force captain. Two cousins, like him, flew for the national carrier, EgyptAir. Mohamed Saeed Shokair died doing what...

When most American troops departed Afghanistan in 2014 and the Obama administration helped install a unity government, it was supposed to set the country on a path toward self-sustainability after...

The July 2015 agreement to dissolve Iran's nuclear program has fundamentally reshaped the country's relationship with the West, but just how much things at home have changed will be tested...

It's starting to look like the bad old days in Afghanistan. After six Americans were killed in a suicide bombing this week, and with the U.S. and Britain deploying troops...