Based on the story of a teacher from Kabul, an award-winning Pakistani filmmaker highlights the heart-wrenching decisions one ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban ’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

For a decade and a half, the forested and rugged region of Nuristan was Afghanistan’s most inaccessible province, a bastion of al-Qaida and the Islamic State. A team of DER SPIEGEL journalists ...

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

In the distance, he could see white snow-capped mountains, greenery and blossoming trees spread across Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley.

The promotional video has emerged on Taliban-linked social media accounts, but it’s not clear if the group made it ...

An accusation levelled against a teen-age girl changes the course of her life, in Salar Pashtoonyar’s documentary about life after the Soviet-Afghan war.

The United Nations General Assembly on Monday denounced the "systematic oppression" of women and girls in Afghanistan by the ...

Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, and a fault line running ...

According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 15 km, making it susceptible to aftershocks ...

It is a sweeping story of family, love and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last 30 years. The second book is A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007).

A deadly explosion in Ghor province, caused by an old rocket shell, killed two children and injured another while herding livestock.