December marked two years since women could attend college in Afghanistan. March will mark three years since girls could go to school past sixth grade. And only a few weeks ago, the Taliban barred ...

In the village of Qalahye Panjah ... Snow leopards, not militants, patrolled the snow peaks. Nobody carried guns. It was rural Afghanistan as it should be. “We’re in our glory times ...

Having opened a clinic in a remote mountain village of Afghanistan as a physician ... nature irrigated farmlands in summer with melted snow from the Hindu Kush mountain range.