The fast-paced equestrian game of buzkashi is a welcome distraction in rural Afghanistan, blighted by drought and poverty, ...

I was new to southern Afghanistan, where Marines had been redeployed ... we watched from the relative safety of our compound in the desert. After one successful raid we collaborated on, he sent ...

when Afghanistan was suffering from a severe drought, Nakamura started a project to build wells. Nakamura carried out irrigation projects on about 16,500 hectares of land, turning the desert ...