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We have a saying in Afghanistan: People age according to the grief they experience, not the years they live. A year after evacuating from Kabul as the Taliban swept through [...]

Despite the Taliban's effort to project themselves as responsible stewards after seizing power, there was still no word on when a new government would be announced. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's [...]

The Taliban's rapid advance has made clear that U.S. efforts to turn Afghanistan's military into a robust, independent fighting force have failed, with its soldiers feeling abandoned by inept leaders. [...]

The likely loss of two of the country's cultural capitals -- Kandahar in the south, and Herat in the West -- is a devastating blow to the government. KABUL, Afghanistan [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Fahim Abed and Jim Huylebroek KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - As the first chatter of gunfire began, a police unit tested its heavy machine gun. The gunner pointed the [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- As the first chatter of gunfire began, a police unit tested its heavy machine gun. The gunner pointed the barrel in the vicinity of the Taliban front [...]

The effort to fend off panic and minimize losses has taken on outsize importance following the seizure of five provincial capitals by the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan -- First, a remote [...]

Sheberghan, in Jowzjan Province, collapsed less than 24 hours after a provincial capital in southwestern Afghanistan had fallen to the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Another provincial capital, the second in [...]

Zaranj, on the Afghanistan-Iran border, was the first provincial capital to be captured by the insurgents since the Biden administration said it would completely withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. KABUL, [...]

The casualty toll from the flood in a Taliban-controlled district in Nuristan Province was expected to rise beyond the 80 confirmed deaths as the search for victims continues. KABUL, Afghanistan [...]

Byline: Christina Goldbaum and Fahim Abed The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was killed in a clash between Afghan forces and the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan - The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui [...]

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was killed in a clash between Afghan forces and the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed while covering a clash [...]

A group of young Afghans studying for college entrance exams must risk suicide attacks by the Islamic State and the looming threat of a Taliban return. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two [...]

An unofficial cease-fire brokered by local officials, farmers and Taliban forces is an example of how communities, driven by despair, have engineered their own ways to stop the fighting. PANJWAI, [...]

Byline: Fahim Abed and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Afghanistan's poor are being deceived into defending outposts from the Taliban, sometimes under the guise of construction work - a scheme partially bankrolled by [...]

In Afghanistan, the footwear of choice among Taliban fighters is a pair of white high-top sneakers with green-and-yellow trim. They're called Cheetahs, they are produced by the Pakistani company Servis [...]

Afghanistan's poor are being deceived into defending outposts from the Taliban, sometimes under the guise of construction work -- a scheme partially bankrolled by the government. MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- A [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Fahim Abed and Jim Huylebroek The sneakers have been worn by Afghan fighters over multiple generations, but they've become a gruesome marker of the Taliban's violent insurgency. [...]

The sneakers have been worn by Afghan fighters over multiple generations, but they've become a gruesome marker of the Taliban's violent insurgency. MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- The unassuming white leather high-top [...]

The Ghani administration and the Taliban are fighting a public-relations battle, with the government taking more drastic measures to control the flow of information. KABUL, Afghanistan -- After Ahmad Jawad [...]

Byline: Fahim Abed and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Most officials believe the Taliban are behind the attacks on civil leaders, but others fear that factions are using chaos as a cover to [...]

Most officials believe the Taliban are behind the attacks on civil leaders, but others fear that factions are using chaos as a cover to settle scores, in an echo of [...]

Byline: David Zucchino and Fahim Abed In Afghanistan, life goes on as though the coronavirus never existed. 'Fake news,' some say, even as a second wave has brought on a [...]

In Afghanistan, life goes on as though the coronavirus never existed. ''Fake news,'' some say, even as a second wave has brought on a surge of new cases and hospitalizations. [...]

Byline: David Zucchino and Fahim Abed The Taliban's recent shift to magnetic bombs to target Afghan officials in Kabul underscores the government's struggle to protect its own people. KABUL, Afghanistan [...]

The Taliban's recent shift to magnetic bombs to target Afghan officials in Kabul underscores the government's struggle to protect its own people. KABUL, Afghanistan -- As he has done most [...]

Byline: David Zucchino and Fahim Abed As the U.S. retreats and peace talks stall, the Taliban have increasingly taken over Afghanistan's highways, raising millions in unofficial taxes and strengthening their [...]

At least 12 people died as thousands crowded a soccer stadium. Many were seeking medical care in Pakistan, which recently eased its pandemic border restrictions. JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- A stampede [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fahim Abed The toll in Charikar was expected to rise as rescue workers sift through the wreckage of dozens of destroyed homes. KABUL, Afghanistan - When [...]

Flooding has left more than 150 dead and 200 others injured in recent days, battering a country already torn asunder by violence and the coronavirus. CHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- Hamid Agha's [...]

The toll in Charikar was expected to rise as rescue workers sift through the wreckage of dozens of destroyed homes. KABUL, Afghanistan -- When the heavy rains came overnight, setting [...]

The unsuccessful operation against Keramuddin Keram, whom players accused of rape and other abuses, showed the limited reach of the national government. KABUL, Afghanistan -- The powerful former chairman of [...]

Members of the dwindling minority communities, gutted by recent deadly violence, welcomed an emergency exit but expressed worry that what would await them in India is poverty. KABUL, Afghanistan -- [...]

Airstrikes destroyed much of a health center after the militants again attacked the northern city, which they have repeatedly overrun. KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a day of intensifying violence across [...]

Byline: Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed Afghans don't need a reminder that no one is safe from the country's endless war, but they got one anyway on Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan [...]

He was a career military officer who rose through the ranks and became the highest-profile Afghan to die after infection by the novel coronavirus. This obituary is part of a [...]

Afghans don't need a reminder that no one is safe from the country's endless war, but they got one anyway on Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan -- The morning was not yet [...]

The militant group has attacked several government outposts since it signed a peace deal with the United States last month. KABUL -- A Taliban ambush that appears to have had [...]

The girl was shot dead in southern Afghanistan, and when her father took her body to a military base to ask for justice, he was killed. KABUL, Afghanistan -- The [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fahim Abed Bagram's economy is tightly bound to the American military, but what once made it a boom town today leaves it more a target. BAGRAM, [...]

Bagram's economy is tightly bound to the American military, but what once made it a boom town today leaves it more a target. BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Six years ago, Faiqullah [...]

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, a roadside bomb that hit a U.S. forces vehicle. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two American service members were killed and two others were wounded [...]

At least two civilians were killed and 73 others wounded in a car bombing and subsequent assault at Bagram Air Base. KABUL, Afghanistan -- As their negotiators resumed peace talks [...]

Byline: Zabihullah Ghazi, Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed Tetsu Nakamura, 73, arrived in Afghanistan in the 1980s to treat leprosy. But he changed many more lives with the canal-building techniques [...]

Tetsu Nakamura, 73, arrived in Afghanistan in the 1980s to treat leprosy. But he changed many more lives with the canal-building techniques he brought from his native Japan. JALALABAD, Afghanistan [...]

The strike on a car killed all five onboard, including a woman who had given birth hours before, relatives and officials said. KHOST, Afghanistan -- An American drone strike on [...]

Most of the victims were from a single family. ''I am dead, I am finished, I am destroyed,'' said one of the survivors. KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least 13 people, [...]

A bomber killed at least 73 people in a village of just 70 families, a brutal blow in one area of the country's east where life feels like a slow [...]