Researchers have discovered for the first time the breeding area of the large-billed reed warbler -- dubbed in 2007 as "the world's least known bird species" -- in the remote and rugged Wakhan ...

A lush field of wheat ripening to gold. Beyond that an ancient river celebrated in the Puranas and early Greek texts — a river that flows now across four countries, its colours changing from ...

A thin strip of land jutting out from Afghanistan, it was created in the 19th century by the British and Russian empires as a barrier so that their empires would never touch. Today it is home to one ...

In this country’s most remote corner – far from the central government, the Taliban, running water, roads, paper currency, foreign troops and medical care – word of the other Afghanistan has arrived.

Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019. His photographs intimately ...

My head bobs wildly, chin hitting chest and swaying from side to side, as I try to stay upright in the back seat of a Land Cruiser that’s going at speed over a gravel track, leaving behind a cloud of ...

The conflict in Afghanistan has reduced the flow of tourists to the country almost to zero. But one remote, northern corner of the country has remained at peace, and is keen to welcome more visitors.

BOZAI GUMBAZ, Afghanistan — As the pickup truck bounced toward a remote village deep in northeastern Afghanistan, the young woman was told by her companions that she could toss her burqa aside. “It’s ...

The Pamir Kyrgyz nomads have known many homelands. Fleeing Russian occupation in Kyrgyzstan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they settled in the Pamir Mountains, spanning eastern Afghanistan ...

General V K Singh had zeroed in on Wakhan as the theatre of geo-strategic importance for stability in the restive Af-Pak region with a greater implication for ...