Rod Nordland Nyt News Service

Afghans proved a tough audience for the world premiere of "The Black Tulip" at the Ariana Cinema on Thursday afternoon (an evening showing was deemed too dangerous). It was meant to be a serious film about Afghanistan, by an Afghan-born director, set in present-day Kabul and even filmed on location here, but many of the Afghans who saw it said they...

She cannot read or write and had never heard of Time magazine until a visitor brought her a copy of this week's issue, the one with  the cover picture of her face, the face with no nose. On Wednesday, the young woman, Bibi Aisha, left Kabul for a long-planned trip to the United States for reconstructive surgery. Earlier in the day, as s...

There was in the city an old garden, and in that garden there were trees, and under the trees there were women.And there were no scarves on the heads of the women who sat under the trees in the old Kabul Women's Garden. That was all something remarkable once upon a time, as it is even now. Screened from male scrutiny by the leafy canopies of almond...

The Taliban have begun waging a campaign of intimidation in Marjah that some local Afghan leaders worry has jeopardized the success of a US-led offensive there meant as an early test of a revised military approach in Afghanistan.

An errant American rocket strike on Sunday hit a compound crowded with Afghan civilians in the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, killing at least 10 people.

NATO and the Afghan military are about to launch their biggest joint offensive of the war, and they appear to be making sure the Taliban know they are coming.

Afghans proved a tough audience for the world premiere of "The Black Tulip" at the Ariana Cinema on Thursday afternoon (an evening showing was deemed too dangerous). It was meant to be a serious film about Afghanistan, by an Afghan-born director, set in present-day Kabul and even filmed on location here, but many of the Afghans who saw it said they...

She cannot read or write and had never heard of Time magazine until a visitor brought her a copy of this week's issue, the one with  the cover picture of her face, the face with no nose. On Wednesday, the young woman, Bibi Aisha, left Kabul for a long-planned trip to the United States for reconstructive surgery. Earlier in the day, as s...

There was in the city an old garden, and in that garden there were trees, and under the trees there were women.And there were no scarves on the heads of the women who sat under the trees in the old Kabul Women's Garden. That was all something remarkable once upon a time, as it is even now. Screened from male scrutiny by the leafy canopies of almond...

The Taliban have begun waging a campaign of intimidation in Marjah that some local Afghan leaders worry has jeopardized the success of a US-led offensive there meant as an early test of a revised military approach in Afghanistan.

An errant American rocket strike on Sunday hit a compound crowded with Afghan civilians in the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, killing at least 10 people.

NATO and the Afghan military are about to launch their biggest joint offensive of the war, and they appear to be making sure the Taliban know they are coming.