Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The students of Pashtunkhwa and Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party lodged a protest demonstration here on Tuesday for the recognition of Pashtun language on the eve of International Day of Mother Languages ...

In a further sign that the U.S. military wants to forget that the Afghanistan War ever happened, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California will cease teaching ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

Afghanistan has two main languages -- Pashto and Dari. In the capital Kabul, Dari is the predominant tongue. Television broadcasts are in Dari, government officials speak Dari, and it is in Dari that ...