Aug. 15 marks four years since the Taliban captured Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul only hours after U.S. troops withdrew.

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As the sun rises over Kabul’s parched mountains, a family’s daily struggle to find water – and to make it last – is about to ...

FILE PHOTO: Ahmad Habibi and his younger brother Mahmood Habibi pose for the camera, Canada, 2014. Mahmood Habibi was taken ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Frozan Hatami never wanted to leave her home in Afghanistan. But when her activism increasingly put her in the path of the Taliban's wrath, fleeing felt like the only safe option.

The group of foreigners visiting the National Museum of Afghanistan was made up only of women. Its guide was a woman, too — one of the first Afghan female tour guides in a country whose Taliban rulers ...

A Jersey City native and graduate of Hudson Catholic High School, William Neil, a Green Beret killed last week in Afghanistan, was laid to rest in Holmdel yesterday. More than 200 people came out ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking during a sermon marking Eid al-Fitr, an Islamic holiday, at the Eidgah Mosque in the southern city of Kandahar. "There is no need for laws that originate from ...

Meanwhile, the Queens-based organization Women for Afghan Women has mobilized to keep its 1,200 staff members in Afghanistan safe. Most have relocated to the capital Kabul as the nonprofit coordinates ...