Afghanistan is not a typical tourist destination due to the ongoing security situation and travel advisories issued by many ...

Based on the story of a teacher from Kabul, an award-winning Pakistani filmmaker highlights the heart-wrenching decisions one ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban ’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

For a decade and a half, the forested and rugged region of Nuristan was Afghanistan’s most inaccessible province, a bastion of al-Qaida and the Islamic State. A team of DER SPIEGEL journalists ...

Despite warnings over safety, foreign tourists are now starting to trickle into conflict-ravaged Afghanistan, welcomed by locals and the hardline Taliban regime.

Authorities who have spent the past three weeks searching in the mountains of Washington state for an ex-soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters say there is no evidence that he rema ...

The promotional video has emerged on Taliban-linked social media accounts, but it’s not clear if the group made it ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Monday denounced the "systematic oppression" of women and girls in Afghanistan by the ...

According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 15 km, making it susceptible to aftershocks ...

Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, and a fault line running ...

It is a sweeping story of family, love and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last 30 years. The second book is A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007).

A deadly explosion in Ghor province, caused by an old rocket shell, killed two children and injured another while herding livestock.