Alina Rekhtman '05 remembers hearing stories of bodies hanging from telephone poles. Rekhtman, one of five University students who worked as interns in Afghanistan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 19 -- The shooting death of a 29-year-old French woman working for the U.N. refugee agency has prompted aid groups to dramatically scale back their work in southeastern ...

In the two years since the invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and the fall of the Taliban, the political and cultural position of Afghan women has improved, said Micheline Centlivres-Demont, ...

MELAN, Afghanistan -- Glistening with fresh paint applied by U.S. troops, the refurbished schoolhouse is a small symbol of an ambitious strategy that Afghan and foreign officials in Paktia province ...

A little over two years ago, on October 7, 2001, US President George Bush announced that the Pentagon had begun air strikes against Afghanistan in preparation for a US invasion. The bombing campaign ...

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, about recent U.S. military attacks that resulted in the deaths of Afghan children. Khalilzad also shares his thoughts ...

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Some 500 Afghan delegates arrive in Kabul, where they will meet to discuss approval of a constitution for Afghanistan's government that could yield the nation's first free elections The Loya Jirga, or ...

In late July, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report entitled Killing you is a very easy thing for us, a 101-page documentation of the chief forms of abuse prevalent today in Kabul ...