HERAT, Afghanistan, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- A pharmaceutical plant established months ago in western Afghanistan's Herat province produces over two dozen types of medicine and provides jobs to youths ...

In a country where women are banned from talking loudly in public and even looking out of the windows, one of the few female ...

Afghan authorities laid down the foundation stone of a township in northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province on Sunday. The proposed township, to be constructed on 35 acres of land within two years and ...

KABUL, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Public Works has signed a contract worth 264 million afghanis (3.6 million U.S. dollars) to conduct a survey and design for the ...

Four months after inaugurating work on the Serhetabat-Herat section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India ... it is playing in the ongoing civil war. The U.K. cannot ignore the broader ...

It’s been nearly a decade since the family has been together. Batool, who lives in the U.S., and her little sister thousands of miles away are just some of the several thousand people impacted by ...

The “Our Afghan Neighbors” exhibit in Appleton features portraits and stories of Afghans who immigrated to the U.S.

following the first campaign of the second Anglo-Afghan War. Dost Mohammad’s son, Sher Ali Khan, fled after the British invaded Afghanistan and his son, Yaqub Khan, sued for peace. According to ...

"We stood with them for the past 20 years, all I want is for them to stand up for the promise they made," the 27-year-old former Afghanistan defence ministry ... led troops from Kabul ended two ...

Here in Herat, I met women ... humanitarian predicament of Afghanistan. It would have been more appropriate had the world not abandoned the Afghan people after the war and if conducive ...

Prior to his evacuation, he worked for an international non-governmental organization supporting the education of girls in Afghanistan ... he had been living in the city of Herat with his parents and ...