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

A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their ...

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.

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 ...

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.

"It is said that Afghan history goes back 5,000 years -- these ancient sites prove it; people lived here," said Mohammed Yaqoub Ayoubi, head of the provincial culture and tourism department.

Gail Nelson is pictured in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2013, with the tomb of the late king, Mohammad Nadir Shaw, in the background. Nelson says he was optimistic about the country’s chances during his ...