Ali M. Latifi

Afghan security personnel look on after a second explosion following a suicide attack outside a bank in Jalalabad on April 18, 2015.

2015 was the worst year on record for civilian casualties in Afghanistan

June 24, 2019 at 3:15 a.m.

When Yousef, 32, arrived at a central roundabout in Jalalabad one morning last spring, he was shocked by what he saw: A suicide bombing outside the local Kabul Bank branch...

An Afghan National Army soldier searches a passenger Dec. 23 at a checkpoint on the way to the Sangin district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.

What’s behind the Taliban onslaught in Afghanistan?

June 25, 2019 at 12:31 a.m.

It's starting to look like the bad old days in Afghanistan. After six Americans were killed in a suicide bombing this week, and with the U.S. and Britain deploying troops...

Afghan Onion, an English-language satirical website, has taken aim at the country's top political figures, including Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, a former warlord.

Can Afghanistan take a joke? Afghan Onion stinging government officials

June 22, 2019 at 6:27 p.m.

They have referred to First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, a feared former Afghan militia commander with a reputation for enjoying his alcohol, as the "Vodka General." They called Mohammad...

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