KABUL, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed and three others injured after heavy rainfall and cold weather swept across western Afghanistan's Herat, Ghor, and Nuristan provinces, local ...

A new exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha shines a light on Afghanistan’s history and art from pre-Islamic ...

The authority’s Director of Information and Public Awareness and spokesperson, Hafiz Mohammad Yousuf Hamad, said the incidents occurred in Farah, Herat, Ghor, and Nuristan. He added that the heavy ...

The late celebrated painter Kamal ud-Din Behzad was known for his miniature art. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The narrow hallway outside the leukemia ward of a public blood disease treatment center in Afghanistan is quiet, save for the ...

Hundreds of years after the celebrated painter Kamal ud-Din Behzad roamed the streets of Herat, artists in the Afghan city ...

Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers.

UNESCO’s recognition of Kamal ud-Din Behzad’s miniature art offers rare encouragement to artists struggling to keep Herat’s cultural legacy alive.

UN's cultural agency inscribed Behzad's style of miniature art on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December ...

A contemporary of Italian masters Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli, Behzad brought a new style to Afghanistan's Herat ...

Afghanistan is ramping up production to better meet domestic demand for broiler meat and eggs, Shafaqna, a local news outlet, ...