“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your Gawd like a soldier.” Rudyard ...

The world could soon catch a glimpse of Afghanistan’s fabled Bactrian gold, as preparations get under way to exhibit some of the 20,000 or so pieces that make up the country’s most important ancient ...

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Former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute (Ret.) and author Craig Whitlock join The Post to discuss revelations from the new Washington Post book, “The Afghanistan ...

SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan -- Abdul Rauf Amini, a horseman and breeder in northern Afghanistan, is the keeper of an ancient tradition. He grooms horses to ride and compete in buzkashi, Afghanistan’s ...

Nearly one year after the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban-led country remains on the brink of failure. U.S. sanctions and the freezing of foreign exchange reserves continue ...

It had the potential to be another Afghanistan Buddha disaster, recalling the Taliban’s destruction of two ancient statues that had stood for centuries in this country’s west: A buried Buddhist city ...

In “The Finest Hotel in Kabul,” the BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most luxurious hotel.

A vassal state falls to an indigenous political movement, resulting in chaos locally and the departing occupier weakened after decades of military conflict and money spent on enriching oligarchs as ...