W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. military now acknowledges making a deadly mistake two weeks ago in a nighttime raid on a village near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Pentagon sources ...

When freelance journalist Anna Badkhen returned to Afghanistan in 2011, she set her eyes on a region so remote it doesn't exist on Google Maps. In her new book, The World Is A Carpet: Four Seasons in ...

Twice a month, Noor Agha Faqiri lights up the kiln at his small workshop around 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of the Afghan capital to fire a fresh batch of pottery. Faqiri is one of dozens of ...

In a remote Afghan village, women strap yellow plastic jerry cans to donkeys and travel every day down a dusty canyon to collect as much water as they can. The containers hold barely enough for ...

Taliban security personnel carry an Afghan earthquake victim evacuated by a military helicopter - Copyright AFP Wakil KOHSAR Taliban security personnel carry an ...

The hardscrabble village of Kashkak, a collection of mud-brick homes perched on a dusty plateau in western Afghanistan, is now a pile of rubble. The village was flattened by a magnitude 6.3 quake ...

A trip to Afghan Village Cuisine is something like visiting an Afghan home, where the meal is how-mom-made-it authentic dishes, like Kabuli pulao, eggplant curry, naan bread and carrot balls for ...

ABI BARIK, Afghanistan -- Afghan rescuers and volunteers armed with shovels and little more than bare hands dug through the mud Saturday after a landslide swept through a village the day before, ...

NPR's Ivan Watson reports from the remote Afghan village of Kakarak, one of the places hit by US warplanes earlier this week. Village elders are demanding justice for those responsible for the attack ...

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Journalist Anna Badkhen chronicles life in a small Afghan village in her new book, The World Is A Carpet. A village of 240 people, Oqa survives on... Mapping 'The World' Of A Remote Afghan Village ...