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At an Afghan mountain school, there are no computers, lights or heat. Even books are few. Yet 90 percent of graduates get into college. Most of them are girls.

An Italian physiotherapist, Alberto Cairo, has spent three decades in Afghanistan leading centers that have treated tens of thousands of disabled people.

The action against Rod Nordland, a longtime foreign correspondent, appeared to be part of a broader crackdown against the domestic and foreign press.

Times journalists traveled to the site of a Taliban assault. Instead of a fierce stand by government commandos, they found a massacre of those American-trained troops.

After 17 years of war in Afghanistan, military and social progress are worse than American officials have admitted.

President Trump’s order for American troops to withdraw from Syria leaves behind a crucial ally in the fight against the Islamic State.

For more than 50 years, Haidari Wujodi’s desk in a Kabul library has been a stop for those seeking escape from the violence outside.

Laila Haidari’s popular Kabul restaurant, where men and women dine freely together, finances her drug treatment center. Now she has a new cause: fighting a peace deal with the Taliban.

More than 1,000 militants turned themselves in after the latest in a string of humiliating defeats in Iraq and Syria. Many claim to have been only cooks or clerks.

In a case that roiled Afghanistan, a father begged for his 6-year-old daughter’s life but had hardly any money for her ransom.

Afghan commanders promised last year to stop fighting a static “checkpoint war.” But most of their soldiers are still hunkered down in their bases.

The garden is not often the first thing on our minds, as we cover Afghanistan’s long war. I didn’t notice what was going on until I looked out the window in front of my desk on the second floor and...

Women wield significant authority in northern Syria — in the police, the courts and the militias — and the push for gender equality is spreading from Kurdish-majority areas to conservative Arab ones.

As the Americans negotiate with the Taliban directly, they are shunning Afghanistan’s national security adviser — and perhaps the president as well.

If the Islamic State’s role in a suicide bombing that killed 35 civilians on Saturday is confirmed, the attack would be a major escalation of the group’s activities in Afghanistan.

President Ashraf Ghani’s Afghan government has been shut out of the insurgents’ peace talks with the United States, and the meeting in Russia could undermine him further.

The idea of an American troop withdrawal fills Afghan women with dread, as they see Westerners as their only protectors not just from the Taliban, but also the “Taliban mentality” among other men.

New details from an attack on Camp Bastion, once the British and American headquarters in Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand Province, shows more weaknesses of the Afghan military.

The groups intend to share a legislative agenda that presses for changes to war authorization measures and an end to the United States’ presence in Afghanistan.

Refugees who had already made it through the vetting procedure to be resettled in the United States reacted with disbelief to President Trump’s ban.

Officials denied that the provincial capital had fallen, but they conceded that the insurgents were within 300 yards of the governor’s office and police headquarters.

The American University of Afghanistan is at risk of closing after United States government investigators said they could not account for $63 million in spending.

The airstrikes came after a firefight broke out between Afghan and American forces, officials said. At least 16 Afghans were either killed or hurt.

A Western diplomat said last week that United States Special Operations forces had been engaged in combat in Helmand for weeks.

Soccer’s governing body said Keramuddin Keram had been found guilty “of having abused his position and sexually abused various female players, in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics.”

Many experts worry that the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

Times journalists traveled to the site of a Taliban assault. Instead of a fierce stand by government commandos, they found a massacre of those American-trained troops.

The activists said that rank-and-file fighters shared their desire for an end to the conflict, but that leaders on both sides “insist on fighting.”

Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Morocco’s coast, is surrounded by a double 20-foot fence topped with barbed wire, the latest flash point for Europe-bound migrants.

Khadija’s fate, at 18, has been to be widowed twice and passed down through a family deep in Taliban territory. “I cannot talk about my dreams,” she says.

By the end of the year, officials expect some 1.5 million migrants to return to Afghanistan — many of them forcibly, and including some registered as refugees.

A suicide attack on Persian New Year killed at least 31, leaving relatives to search for loved ones among body parts strewn outside a hospital in the Afghan capital.

Darulaman Palace in Kabul has been ruined by four decades of war, but a reconstruction project is underway, with no foreign help.

Palermo’s Teatro Massimo is the biggest opera house in Italy and a symbol of the mafia’s disgrace in Sicily. It also starred in “The Godfather: Part III.”

Visitors may end up finishing the job that the Taliban started. A crawl through the honeycombed caves around the destroyed Buddhas is sobering.

Hundreds of thousands of tourists fly to Lapland to see Finland’s “official Santa.” Many come from lands like China, with no Christmas traditions.

In a large-scale attack in western Afghanistan, the Taliban killed 16 soldiers and captured 40, even as their negotiators met with American envoys in Qatar.

Zarifa Ghafari expects to die in office. But in the meantime, she intends to do something about the litter problem.

Khadija’s fate, at 18, has been to be widowed twice and passed down through a family deep in Taliban territory. “I cannot talk about my dreams,” she says.

In Afghanistan, dogfights attract packed stadiums and big purses. Fighting birds and even camels also feed the Afghan love of animal “sports,” although religious leaders decry them as sinful.