Kabul

  • When cooking is a radical act

    Foreign women opening restaurants in Kabul provide stability and comfort to a war-torn area.
    By Carol Lloyd December 18, 2007

  • A 17-year-old madam, Kabul's beauty school and more

    Afghan women can make up to $200 per haircut.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory April 9, 2007

  • All unquiet on the eastern front

    With Afghans enraged by a worsening security situation and the West's failure to improve their lives, Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into violent chaos.
    By Mitchell Prothero June 14, 2006

  • Fear and explosions in Kabul

    Afghanistan isn't Iraq yet. But when a suicide bomber blew himself and two other people up inside my hotel's Internet cafe, it became impossible to ignore the rising anger at foreigners here.
    By Quil Lawrence June 4, 2005

  • Burqas and ballots

    In one of the most male-dominated nations on earth, Afghan vice presidential candidate Shafiqa Habibi doesn't play second fiddle to anyone.
    By Ann Marlowe October 8, 2004

  • We're losing the war in Afghanistan, too

    A human rights worker reports from the other front in the U.S. war on terror, where warlords reign supreme, music is once again banned, journalists hide from gunmen, and even the streets of Kabul are filled with fear.
    By John Sifton August 21, 2003

  • Partying while Afghanistan burns

    While Westerners dance at end-of-the-world raves, the country slips back toward anarchy -- and the Bush administration does nothing.
    By Phillip Robertson October 28, 2002

  • The deadly children of Ghazni

    On the treacherous Kabul-Kandahar road, our correspondent falls into the hands of a gang of feral kids with Kalashnikovs.
    By Phillip Robertson February 4, 2002

  • Guess what, the bombing worked like a charm

    The antiwar hand-wringers kept warning us of its perils. But as the Taliban despots flee Afghan cities, and their citizens cheer, the air war's stunning efficacy is clear for all to see
    By Christopher Hitchens November 14, 2001

  • After the fall

    The Taliban is on the run. What happens now? Who should govern Afghanistan? And how hard will it be to win the war of the caves?
    By Damien Cave, Max Garrone and Daryl Lindsey November 14, 2001
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