These rugs probe the aestheticization of war and the risk of defining a country primarily by its violent past and present at ...

Nov. 16, 2006 — -- When American Nancy Hatch Dupree found out she had been dubbed "Afghanistan's grandmother," she "went into orbit," she said. The Afghans she worked with didn't understand ...

Karzai, who was a deputy minister in the Afghan government that was formed in the early 1990s after the withdrawal of Soviet forces, could offer some of that stability, analysts said.

The women’s rights advocate says the international community’s failure to use its leverage is making the Taliban bolder.

That violent history was on display for five years when the Taliban ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until the U.S. invasion that toppled their government in 2001.

For the first time in Afghan history, Afghans are about to set spending priorities for their localities, rather than accepting the crumbs that a king, warlord, or Kabul-appointed governor ...

When the results of the Afghan parliamentary elections were announced on Sunday, 68 women were among the 249 successful candidates. The election of women, including ex-refugee Shinkai Karokhail, to ...