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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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.