This weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting “Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan,” a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum that showcases a project to revive Afghanistan’s cultural ...

Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug picturing a Kalashnikov rifle framed by hand grenades. Another shows planes hitting a World Trade Center overlaid by ...

From AK47s to drones, Afghan 'war rugs' reflect bloody decades. US troops left Afghanistan last month, almost 20 years since the invasion in the War on Terror ...

Kabul: Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug of a Kalashnikov rifle framed by hand grenades. Another shows planes hitting a World Trade Centre overlaid by ...

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Q: My family and I are wondering about this rug we found in our stepdad’s home. He and our mother traveled quite a lot and we were wondering if they smuggled this out of Turkey when they were there ...

You won’t find pleasant, colorful abstracts on rugs woven in Afghanistan in recent years. The tension, violence and war that have tainted the region have also affected the commerce of rug collecting.

Newly released images of an unsettling collection of carpets depict the conflicts that have ravaged Afghanistan for the past 40 years. 1 A foot rug decorated with a Soviet helicopter. 2 A lake filled ...