At a tiny, two-pump gas station off the two-lane highway running through Afghanistan's Logar province, Mohammad Farooq, the attendant, was unequivocal in his view of the United States. “Thank God the ...

It still amazes me how the snow has changed the vast patches of beige to glorious visions of white. The terrain of Afghanistan is part of what has made it a rugged country difficult to tame. The ...

The phrase "Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires" is perpetuated by the Taliban as a way to mythologise the image of the ...

Two years ago, the Afghan government constructed and armed at Washington’s great expense dissolved one provincial capital at a time. The Taliban occupied Kabul on August 15. America’s role in ...

Being reminded of how good we have it in the U.S. is pretty much a daily occurrence here. Here on Camp Vulcan, we have two or three large generators that supply enough juice to run our lights, ...

Help us keep delivering stories that change laws and lives. Donate today. This is part of a series of reported essays describing how 9/11 and the “war on terror” that followed changed the lives of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Like many people, my image of Afghanistan has been shaped by what I read and see in the media. Women in blue burqas, fields of opium-producing poppies, fierce-looking, turbaned ...

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says Islamabad does not seek further escalation of hostilities with Afghanistan but expects the country’s Taliban rulers to address its security concerns by ...

Since the Taliban takeover, much of Afghanistan’s countryside has seen a big drop in violence after 20 years of fighting. “It has been a long time now since a bullet hit our homes.” Photographs and ...

KULANGAR, AfghanistanKULANGAR, Afghanistan — At a tiny, two-pump gas station off the two-lane highway running through Afghanistan’s Logar province, Mohammad Farooq, the attendant, was unequivocal in ...