Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rug designs tend to contain symbols – AK-47s, 9/11 and drones – that reflect an outsider’s understanding of war. Kevin Sudeith ...

To save the women of Afghanistan, Connie Duckworth interweaves business and charity. At a recent cocktail party at New York's Connoisseur's Antique Fair, Manolo Blahnik-heeled women cooed over ...

When Shams Frough graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he had two major goals: to make a little money before starting medical school and to support weavers in Afghanistan. The Taliban ...

The wares arriving at Lashar Rugs, woven mostly by women, carry the history of conflict, displacement and survival.

The end of the US-led military intervention in Afghanistan has resulted in the withdrawal of most foreign aid workers and contractors. It may well also spell the demise of the country’s war rug ...

This weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting “Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan,” a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum that showcases a project to revive Afghanistan’s cultural ...

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When it comes to what to depict on rugs, Afghan weavers traditionally turn to what’s most familiar. So in the 1980s, when the Mujahedeen were fighting back the Soviet occupation, some local weavers ...

1 of 6 — Afghan war rugs featuring U.S. drones is a recent trend in the market, says collector Kevin Sudeith. 3 of 6 — This war rug features the infamous AK-47 rifle, a weapon that has become ...

Newly released images of an unsettling collection of carpets depict the conflicts that have ravaged Afghanistan for the past 40 years. 1 A foot rug decorated with a Soviet helicopter. 2 A lake filled ...

Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug of a Kalashnikov rifle framed by hand grenades. Another shows planes hitting a World Trade Center overlaid by Afghan and ...