Aided by her mother, Mahtab Amiri, who coordinated her escape, she left the country with Erfaan and was driven to Iran. From there, she made her way to Turkey and then Greece before she eventually settled in Norway, where she was granted asylum.

Through the dust kicked up by the pounding hooves of a scrum of horses and riders, a winner emerges. The victorious team gallops around the playing field, holding a flag aloft. The final of Afghanistan’s hugely popular annual tournament of buzkashi,

A regional meeting hosted by Iran on Afghanistan underscored calls for lifting sanctions and strengthening regional cooperation, even as Afghanistan itself did not attend

After a fatal shooting, the Trump administration froze a visa program for Afghans that Republicans in Congress had championed. The G.O.P. has not objected.

Two Tajik border guards were killed in a cross-border attack from Afghanistan, with Tajik authorities saying three assailants were shot

The U.S. poured billions of dollars into rebuilding Afghanistan for two decades. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's Taliban-run government says that the actions of an Afghan national charged in the shooting of two U.S.

The Taliban government on Thursday expressed support for Russia’s interest in building a railway line through Afghanistan, saying improved security conditions make the country suitable for major regional connectivity projects.

Afghanistan and India deepen trade ties with renewed economic cooperation, investment discussions, and bilateral commerce opportunities.

Riders from different Afghan provinces compete in the final of Afghanistan’s annual buzkashi tournament on the outskirts of Kabul, as spectators, including Taliban authorities, attend the event. Buzkashi is a traditional equestrian sport in which riders score points by carrying a goat carcass — nowadays replaced by a fake goat carcass — across a goal.

What began as a battlefield partnership became a deep friendship, as an American veteran worked for years to help an Afghan interpreter enter the U.S. Just when it seemed they succeeded, the Trump administration enacted new limits on visas.