Nilly Kohzad is an Afghan-American economist and journalist.
Over the past several years, Turkey has become a critical refugee hotspot for Afghans alongside its still-expanding Syrian and Iraqi refugee population. Its key location straddling East and West has made it a stopover for refugees on their journey to start a new life in Europe.
Nilly Kohzad writes of the legacy left behind by her grandfather, the Afghan historian Ahmad Ali Kohzad, who first uncovered Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past and helped shape its historical identity.
Before being ravaged by four decades of war, the Afghan capital was a hub of innovation, modernity, progressive ideas, and urban living. Kabul's residents, and those who visited the city in the 1960s and '70s, recall its golden era.
Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, is one of the highest-ranking women in the Afghan government.
Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern province of Badakhshan, home to a plethora of rare and nearly extinct animals, is seeing an increase in illegal bird hunting despite a ban on such practices to preserve the region’s rich biodiversity.
As the Afghan government and the Taliban inch forward in a fledgling peace process, the country’s lack of financial independence is being touted as the main incentive for them to form a single political system that will still need to work hard to attract foreign aid.
n parts of Afghanistan, buzkashi, the country’s national sport, is thriving as horsemen and breeders continue to keep and improve ancient traditions to keep this unique and dangerous sport alive.
An increasing number of young Afghans, including women, are turning to mountaineering to celebrate and promote their country’s natural beauty and tourism potential.
Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region.
The Afghan diaspora in the United States, exiled from their nation because of war and persecution, find themselves witnessing their home country grappling with the idea of concluding nearly four decades of war in a meaningful manner.
A leading rights watchdog in Afghanistan has documented a dramatic drop in girls’ education in two provinces where the Taliban controls large swathes of rural territories and is battling government forces for more.
Mohammad Akbar, known as Afghanistan’s “saffron father,” died on September 14 at the age of 83 in his home province of Herat in the country’s west.
By sharing with her 17,000 followers on social media her sense of style that comprises a mix of East and West heavily influenced by Afghan, Pakistani, and Indian designs, Safia’s goal is to place her country, Afghanistan, on the fashion map.
Afghanistan’s cabinet approved the proposal of including mothers' names on national identification cards on September 1, a major win for #whereismyname? campaign activists that have spent three years fighting for the issue for women's rights in the country.
For nearly four decades, Afghans have been one of the largest refugee groups globally, but in recent years internal displacement has turned into a top humanitarian issue for the country of 35 million people.
Today, the remote valleys of Panjshir are now among a handful of Afghan rural territories where peace prevails, and the population largely supports the Afghan government.
For nearly half a century, Saira, 70, has helped the region’s women and saved many lives. She is now a local legend.
In a worrying sign, wealthy businessmen are threatening to move their capital abroad to escape growing insecurity in a strategic western Afghan province that has turned into a key commercial and industrial hub in recent years.
In a show of unity against the practice and in a pioneering move the first of its kind in Afghanistan, civil rights activists, religious clerics, and women in Bamyan’s Yakawlang district agreed to ban forced marriages.
Hopes for ending four decades of war in Afghanistan are high this week after a Loya Jirga or grand assembly of more than 3,000 political elites, tribal leaders, clerics, and activists approved the release of 400 Taliban prisoners.
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