This Google Earth animation compresses twenty years of war, showing the shifting control, major offensives, and final exit.

New photos from Afghanistan show a Taliban law banning images of people and animals is now being enforced across most of the ...

Deadly clashes between local residents and a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan have left four people dead and five ...

In the heart of Afghanistan, a few skilled photographers are preserving a century-old tradition ,capturing portraits using ...

Afghanistan's disaster management agency says the season’s first heavy rain and snowfall has ended a prolonged dry spell but triggered flash floods, killing at least 17 people and injuring 11 others ...

Afghanistan's disaster management agency says the season’s first heavy rain and snowfall has ended a prolonged dry spell but ...

The twisting saga that separated the Hashemis in Oregon from their infant son has reached a new dead end: President Trump’s hold on all visas to the United States.

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to ...

The Ariana Cinema was closed after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, when authorities banned most forms of entertainment, including films and music ...

Built during a cosmopolitan era in the 1960s, the Ariana closed when the Taliban took power, but it was still standing. Now it’s making way for a shopping mall. By Safiullah Padshah and Elian Peltier ...

Through the dust kicked up by the pounding hooves of a scrum of horses and riders, a winner emerges. The victorious team gallops around the playing field, holding a flag aloft. The final of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Riders from the Sar-e-Pul and Badakhshan teams ...