Masood Farivar is a Senior Analyst in VOA’s South and Central Asia Division.
Root causes of forced movement haven't changed, notes director general of International Organization for Migration
Social scientists say Americans' confidence in police rebounded last year, but they wonder about effect of recent controversial shootings by police of black men in North Carolina and Oklahoma
Anti-Muslim crime sees biggest jump, though study points out there were more anti-Jewish and anti-LGBT hate crimes in 2015
After weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey, some say they can no longer maintain the fiction that the perpetrator is not one of their own
How many more refugees can the United States accept without straining its financial resources? Depends on whom you ask
America’s policy on refugees has become a political football in the past year, thanks to a global migration crisis, fears of terrorist attacks and a contentious presidential election. Masood Farivar reports on America’s increasingly conflicted attitudes toward refugees.
Muslims in US voted for George W. Bush by wide margin in 2000, but in this year's presidential vote they may favor Clinton over Trump by margin just as great
Clinton charity works on four continents and in more than 100 countries, getting generally high marks from independent watchdogs
Of 167,221 terrorism-related fatalities reported from 2001 to 2015, almost all — 163,532 or 98 percent — occurred outside US and Western Europe
Surge in Islamophobia recorded in recent years seen by some as driven in large part by anti-Muslim political rhetoric and violent extremism
Critics see 'a new dark age' as arrests of journalists, closures of media outlets by Erdogan government mount
IS claims bombing was warning to Hazaras against fighting with Syrian regime; others say IS wants to break up Afghanistan as has been done in Iraq, Syria
Donald Trump's foreign policy vision marks a sharp departure from that of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton
Turkish President Erdogan accuses Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, of leading last week's failed coup attempt
As Western intelligence and law enforcement improve their capabilities, terrorist groups find it harder to mount large-scale, complex attacks
'I think it’s good that leaders are working to cultivate resilience,' former US State Department official says
Unarmed black men were killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; the two cities are very different, and yet ...
Mohammed bin Salman's recent US visit left investors, analysts mulling the scope of his ambitious reform plan
Congressional inaction threatens funding for effort which began in 2008 and has allowed more than 20,000 interpreters, their family members to immigrate to US
Experts say exit is likely to have far-reaching economic, political and social implications for a region with deep historic ties to Britain
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