Stories from South Asia
Karzai is confident that Afghans and regional stakeholders support his crusade against the “American agenda” in Afghanistan, which he describes as an attempt to create disharmony among nations
In just the last two weeks, 29 Afghan civilians are estimated to have lost theirs lives to U.S. air strikes, a substantial spike since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his strategy for Afghanistan.
The aircraft will be converted to a restaurant but has already become an attraction at the Afghan capital’s only amusement park
The bomb went off outside a building housing several banks, including the privately-owned Kabul Bank which is used by the Afghan army to pay soldiers’ salaries
ISIL is trying to drive a wedge between Sunnis and Shiites that has never been there, say Afghan activists
As the young students stood excitedly in neat rows, a young mother among them with her baby, no one had forgotten that less than a year ago this very institute in Kabul was the site of a brutal massacre — a Taliban attack on August 24, 2016 that killed at least 13 students and staff members
Lanny Cordola, a US rocker, had toured with well-known names in music, and he had appeared in a couple of episodes of the ABC comedy as a musician. But everything changed when he learned about two attacks in Afghanistan.
The Kabul authorities are painting houses bright colours in order to give a new lease of life to the area – and improve residents’ mental health
Deadliest bombing yet strikes Kabul
Afghan intelligence services knew an attack was coming, but blame the government next door for organizing it