A U.S. Special Forces team leader meets with an Afghan local police checkpoint commander in the Zharay district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, May 21, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kaily ...

There's a heartbreaking truth behind an infamous photo taken over 40 years ago, and it will change the way you look at it ...

The sad truth behind 12-year-old ‘Afghan girl’ Sharbat Gulla that will change the way you look at her iconic National ...

When a cockfight begins in Kabul, the noise is immediate. Roars of “Hit!” and “Kill!” erupt among spectators as two birds ...

Back in 1984, Steve McCurry took a photograph of a young girl in Pakistan. The photo of the Afghan refugee went on to become ...

August 14. I arrived in Afghanistan as the Taliban was advancing on the capital at an incredible pace. A hired driver named Massoud picked me up at the Kabul airport on Aug. 14.

The photo dates to 2021 and shows a US Air Force flight evacuating people from Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents retook ...

Ami Vitale and Lynsey Addario SHARE. The US military presence in Afghanistan has been called “America’s longest war,” which is an accurate description of an occupation that lasted nearly 20 years, ...

WASHINGTON – The State Department did not dispatch their best and brightest to help with the botched August 2021 evacuation of Americans and their allies from Afghanistan, a former foreign ...

The iconic, controversial Time cover photo of an 18-year-old Afghan woman missing her nose has been named World Press Photo of the Year. "It's an incredibly strong image," Ruth Eichhorn, one of ...

Mother Jones has a great photo essay up about the current lives of women in Afghanistan. (Warning: Some of the images are gruesome.) I'd argue that the essay's text goes a bit too far in blaming ...