In 1996, Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda fled Sudan after years of enjoying safe haven in North Africa and returned to Afghanistan. At the time that the Taliban was rising in power and bin Laden was welcomed. Now...
Few Afghans have been safe from the ongoing fighting across the country. The violence has been brutal and often close to home. The war has destroyed hospitals, schools, mosques, wedding halls, and other public places. Yet the cycle of violence...
Yousuf Khan Aryobe was a doctor at Child Health Hospital in the Afghan capital of Kabul. He received a woman who coughed in front of him and went away in late March 2020. As she showed symptoms of COVID-19, Dr....
Islamdeen Bahaduri woke up, washed his face and began his morning routine. He ran for an hour and then returned back to his home in the Barchi neighborhood of Kabul, the Afghan capital. Bahaduri ate breakfast and went to accept...
Gurnam Singh and his Sikh community recently held a religious gathering to pray for those overcoming the coronavirus in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. Children, women, and men of the minority religious group in the Muslim-dominated country were praying for health and...
Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province has been a flashpoint of conflict since Americans first walked in in 1951. The province became known as “Little America” and since 2001 the US government poured in millions of dollars and deployed thousands of soldiers...
Karim Khalili, the head of Afghanistan’s high peace council, was delivering a speech on peace in a gathering when gunfire erupted on Friday, March 6 at midday in Kabul, the Afghan capital. The ensuing shooting killed 32 civilians and wounded...
Three Afghan teenagers laugh and play on the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan capital, with rainy clouds in the sky. A 5-year old boy tries to fly a kite. They focus hard on the game, as their future is shaped...
In the 18-year-long Afghan war, the United States and the Taliban along with the Afghan government will finally hold their fire for seven days as a test. The test period — step one of a ceasefire — from 22 to...
Ashraf Ghani was declared the winner of the 2019 Afghan presidential election, securing a second-round win after months-long of dispute and fraud accusation. Opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah called the results “coup against democracy” and announced his own victory. The dispute...
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