Mujib Mashal

KABUL, Afghanistan - FOUR large clocks tick out of sync, puncturing the silence of his Soviet-built apartment…

Critics call it "the radio of pimps and vagina-sellers." But a popular new call-in show is helping a generati…

Afghanistan’s outgoing president helped heal a shattered country. He also winked at corruption and ruled like…

"If the top 10 wealthy men in Afghanistan—I would say 9 of them products of the past 10 years—came together, …

A Taliban intelligence chief's death and resurrection

ALMAR, Afghanistan - At first, Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum tried to get help from his own government, …

A mellowed academic, a ruthless general, a shadowy spy: Inside Hamid Karzai's inner circle

Female political participation at the higher levels of government remains little more than a slogan, activist…

The U.S. military may fear turncoat Afghans, but a more systematic subversion is at work

A Wave of Islamic Militancy Has Devastated a Northwestern Region's Unique Musical Culture

The Pentagon is reporting an 80% increase in IED incidents over the past two years in Afghanistan. In 2012 al…

Abdul Basit has seen what no 7-year-old should see. He saw the dead body of his father Yoldash, an Afghan pol…

A decade of the US-led NATO war against the Afghan Taliban has done little to erode the influence of one of t…

Educated in some of the best schools in the world, the scion of commanders involved in four decades of war re…

With a vast, empty desert as a backdrop, the militants recorded the execution of Khan Wali on video. As someo…

How one former anti-Soviet ally of the US, who refused to meet Reagan, continues his war three decades later.

Are the Taliban using sex to fight America?

Two young Afghans are working hard to start up an Afghan bourse. It may be one way to goose a moribund econom…

Instead of aid, villagers in remote northern province seek speedy completion of a road to end their isolation

Foundation linked to the Pakistani army has been providing Bahrain thousands of soldiers for its crackdown on…

Virtual absence of the reformists pits increasingly divided conservatives against each other in assembly elec…

Despite a reinvigorated desire for learning in southern Afghanistan, the region's education statistics remain…

Celebrated Indian artist, exiled during his final years by attacks from Hindu right,leaves a rich legacy at h…

Parachinar, in Pakistan's tribal north west, remains under siege. The only road connecting this district bord…