Nilly Kohzad is an Afghan-American economist and journalist.
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.
A northern Afghan province that once boasted promising business opportunities for women has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Talks between the Afghan government and the hard-line Islamist Taliban movement finally appear to be on the horizon after the two sides announced a brief cease-fire during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha this week.
In Afghanistan, women cannot obtain a passport for their children without the presence of the father. The mother's name isn’t allowed on the child's identification card, either.
