During their rule in the 1990s, Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban banned photography, television, and the Internet by declaring that taking pictures of living things was forbidden in Islam. But two ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

A university student in Pakistan aspired to join the country’s elite civil service after undergoing a competitive process that requires participants to prepare for years. Instead, Shahdad Baloch, in ...

LASHKARGAH, Afghanistan — Jan Agha, a young Afghan farmer in the restive southern province of Helmand, is contemplating something no other agriculturist has attempted in the vast region bordering ...

Raees Khudaidad's name in his home province of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan elicits polarized reactions. Most of his compatriots see him as a notorious murderer, robber and kidnapper. But the ...

Abdul Ghani Khan (1914-1996), a master poet, sculptor and painter, was inspired by the Impressionists but developed his own style. He mostly concentrated on painting the human face because "of the ...

NAD-E ALI, Afghanistan -- Muhammad Lala, a white-bearded Pashtun patriarch, is not happy upon returning to his house after more than a year. Lala, a farmer, left his humble mud home in great haste in ...

Seventeen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election in a race among old power brokers -- ex-government officials, prominent technocrats, and a notorious former warlord. The twice-delayed ...

Nearly half a century ago, a bloodless palace coup in Afghanistan ended more than two centuries of Durrani monarchy in Afghanistan. But the power grab of the July 17, 1973, coup that saw Sardar ...

PECH DARA, Afghanistan – A remote mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan was once dubbed the Valley of Death for witnessing some of the fiercest fighting during four decades of war in the country.

A Taliban attack in an isolated part of northern Afghanistan has revealed how vulnerable Kabul is when it comes to maintaining its electricity supply -- a weakness the Taliban now says it is ...

In a sign that the Afghan Taliban are eager to join the mainstream, they have released a detailed report about their recent fight against Central Asian militants loyal to the Islamic State (IS) and ...