"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

For some just being able to compete at the Olympics is a dream come true. Afghan sisters Yulduz and Farib Hashimi will embody this sentiment when they hit the course together in the women’s road race ...

At first, it was a small museum in a nondescript office building in Kabul, with a seemingly mundane collection — like a 14-year-old's schoolbooks and black sandals. The teenager had died in Kabul in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul marked not only the fall of a government but a historical moment of moral failure. Afghan women have paid the price. August 15 holds a solemn place in the collective ...

Diana Preston, The Dark Defile: Britain’s Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838–1842 (New York: Walker & Company, 2012), 320 pp., $28.00. FOR MANY foreigners, the history of Afghanistan reads ...