In Kabul’s alleys and courtyards, boys in white caps and tunics recite verses from the Quran in a growing network of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves. She dreams of ...

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is ...

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

Burrowing into both Afghan family life and the country’s convoluted politics, Åsne Seierstad's "The Afghans" follows three people over several decades, culminating in the dramatic first year of the ...

The World Food Program says Afghanistan is having its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition. Almost 10 million people, a quarter of Afghanistan’s population, face acute food insecurity. One ...

Afghanistan remains the only country in the world that prohibits girls and women from getting general education at secondary ...

With no access to education beyond the 6th grade, girls in Afghanistan turn to religious schools The female secondary and higher education ban has been controversial in Afghanistan, even within ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves.