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Amid the rubble of bombed-out buildings in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, rises a joyous sound. Shrieks of laughter mix with the rattle and clack of skateboard wheels as a group of [...]

The two Afghan girls had every reason to think the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were riding in. Disguised [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some of Shamila Kohestani's classmates at Blair Academy know that she's the captain of Afghanistan's national women's soccer team. Some students are aware that she is Muslim. But […]

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] CRITICAL THINKING Ask students why they think the U.S., with the most powerful military in the world, and its allies, have not been able to totally subdue the […]

Like most 16-year-old girls, Latifa liked watching movies, listening to music, trying on clothes, and putting on makeup. She dreamed of going to college and becoming a journalist. But on [...]

On the streets of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, people are seeing something they haven't seen for years: women's smiling faces. For six years, the Taliban, the Islamic group that […]

KABUL, Afghanistan--'It's as if a garden, once without flowers, has been reborn,' said Karim, a teacher, about the streets of the Afghan capital now that the Taliban have been ousted [...]

It might seem strange to call Razma Qasemiar (KAH-sim-yar) a lucky girl. Razma, 12, lives with her parents and two brothers in a three-room house with no electricity, telephone, or [...]

AFGHANISTAN is not a country for wimps. Right now, it may be the harshest, most brutal, most terrifying, most cheerless, and most dangerous country in the world in which to […]

PABBI, Pakistan -- When 70-year-old Hadiko finally reached the border of Pakistan, she wept. Four days earlier, she and her family had fled their home in Kabul to escape the […]

THE DEFINING FEATURE OF AFGHANISTAN IS despair. Clusters of widows, cloaked head to toe in blue shrouds, wander the streets, begging. Skeletal men, unable to afford donkeys, pull overloaded carts. […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One morning last November, 17-year-old Shamsia Husseini and her sister were walking through the muddy streets of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, to the local girls school. A man […]

On the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, girls are going somewhere they haven't gone in nearly six years--to school. The country's Taliban government had banned girls and women from learning, working, [...]

I strongly backed the war in Afghanistan. Bush oversaw a smart and decisive war, and when I strolled through Kabul after its liberation, I was never more proud to be […]

Less than a month ago, kids in Afghanistan reported back to school. This year, more of them will have school supplies, thanks to the BluePack Project. For over 20 years, [...]

Each morning Atiqullah Mohammed, a 10-year-old boy in Afghanistan, leaves his home. He is not headed to school. Instead of carrying books, he carries a blowtorch. Why Kids Work Atiqullah [...]

The Taliban have been defeated, and a new group of leaders have taken control in Afghanistan. They have a difficult task ahead: rebuilding a nation destroyed by decades of civil [...]

Many children in the United States are trying to make life a bit easier for kids living in war-torn Afghanistan. They are finding ways to raise money for America's Fund […]

When the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan in 1996, they imposed severe restrictions on women and girls. Afghan girls can't attend school, nor can women work outside their homes. The […]