Afghanistan's former vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum, a powerful warlord who has long held undue sway over the country's politics, called on his supporters Wednesday to take to the streets to protest against the re-election of President Ashraf Ghani. Ghani on Tuesday was declared winner...

Sanaullah Dar was due to undergo surgery to remove a tumour in his bladder. Four months later, he was dead, with doctors blaming a lockdown imposed by New Delhi on the restive part of Kashmir it controls. In August, India's Hindu-nationalist government stripped the Himalayan region of its...

Samar Sheikh's neighbours used to tell her football was not for girls but the criticism stopped when her team won the very first women's championship in Syria. The 20-year-old also finished top scorer at the end of a season that saw teams from all over Syria face off over weeks before the...

(Eqtsad)- A Syrian refugee woman in Sweden has defied the stereotypes of Arab women to work as a heavy truck driver and overcoming all restrictions that still prevent many women in the Arab world from achieving their dreams. Diaa Al-Hajji, originally from Aleppo’s northern...