Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.
American anti-trafficking groups often make impossible-to-verify claims. Now, they’re doing it in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.
In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress during the war in Afghanistan. They were not, and they knew it.
An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.
A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.
How two veterans with PTSD turned a Canadian military town into a medical-marijuana hub.
When his father was murdered, Wasil Ahmad vowed revenge. He was 8 years old.
Did Afghan forces target the M.S.F. hospital?
Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?
What happened to the Afghan timber worker after a 2005 battle was made into a book and feature film.
Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.
An army vet vanishes in upstate New York.
The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.
On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, women express themselves through fierce short poems.
Picking up the pieces in Afghanistan.
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Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.
A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection.
Hamid Karzai’s older brother owns a restaurant in Baltimore.
A women’s shelter in Afghanistan protects its inhabitants from their own families.
After an election deadlock that held the country hostage for months, two former rivals confront Afghanistan’s patronage and corruption.
Critics call it “the radio of pimps and vagina-sellers.” But a popular new call-in show is helping a generation of Afghans navigate a battlefield full of strife and confusion and fear: modern love.
Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.
