Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show ...

The 9/11 terrorist attacks claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people in the United States. They also left an indelible mark on the history of Afghanistan, reshaping countless lives, including ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban left many surprised. To Ali Olomi, a historian of the Middle East and Islam at Penn State University, a key to understanding what is ...

When previously in power, the Taliban destroyed much of the Afghan culture. When Ali Karimi was young, he had to bury his books in the backyard. In 1996, when the Taliban first came to power after ...

I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

pt. 1. Introduction. -- The land -- The people -- pt. 2. The historical background. -- Prehistory and Bronze Age civilisations -- Iron Age and the Iranians -- Alexander and the establishment of Greek ...

Afghanistan is a sore, but it has been so for all the years of Pakistan's existence. More importantly, we have lived through it and kept a decent face. The Soviets and the Americans came and occupied ...

Dozens of countries scrambled to evacuate their citizens from the country. LONDON -- At one minute before midnight local time on Aug. 31, the last U.S. servicemember was withdrawn from Afghanistan. It ...

Afghanistan was on a timid recovery path. But four years after the Taliban retook power, it has been badly hit by aid cuts and an inflow of two million Afghans forced out of Iran and Pakistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan, November 14 (UNHCR) - The final results of Afghanistan's landmark parliamentary elections were only declared on Sunday, after several delays, but Shinkai Karokhail was already at ...

In “The Finest Hotel in Kabul,” the BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most luxurious hotel. By Amy Waldman Amy Waldman is the author of the novels “A ...