Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old ...

It explores the situation of Afghanistan in the late 1980s—when the country was under occupation by the Union of Soviet ...

As Afghanistan still struggles to find an elusive peace, here are a selection of his powerful and poignant photographs taken during the 1980s and 1990s. Afghan guerrilla fighter passes Soviet ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada became the supreme commander of the Taliban in May 2016, and is now leader of the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. In the 1980s, he participated in the Islamist ...

Carter, who died Sunday in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100, called to boycott the 1980 Olympics because of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, and the pressure he exerted on the U.S ...

Akhundzada became the supreme commander of the Taliban in 2016, and is now leader of the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. In the 1980s, he participated in Islamist groups fighting against ...

The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he will seek arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Taliban government in Afghanistan over the persecution of women and girls.