The conflict in Afghanistan dominates headlines, but many people seek a deeper understanding of the country and the war the U.S. is fighting there. In the first of a series of suggestions for an ...

When the Inter-Con opened in 1969, Afghanistan was “unimaginably different from today”, said William Dalrymple in The Guardian. A modernising monarch, Zahir Shah, was on the throne; Kabul was known as ...

VALPARAISO | A shocking memoir about life in Afghanistan alerted Diana Haniacek to the plight of women under the Taliban. It was only natural the Valparaiso woman's annual philanthropic project ...

Welcome to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click here. I'm Abubakar Siddique, senior correspondent at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. Here's ...

Ever since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there has been plenty of talk about the Islamic faith and faraway countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan. In fact, you would be hard ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 23 (Reuters) - When Swedish journalist Jenny Nordberg visited the home of an Afghan parliamentarian, she was surprised to hear one of the politician's daughters declare of another child ...