I sent that email to my family in 2012 when I moved to Afghanistan as the World Bank country director. Three years stretched to four-and-one-half, and I still wanted to be there on the day I left.

Long a no-go zone for travellers, the relative stability provided by the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan has also ...

In the distance, he could see white snow-capped mountains, greenery and blossoming trees spread across Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley. It was “one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to ...

“Afghanistan is not all about terrorists, it’s not all about war – it has a beautiful side,” she notes, acknowledging the juxtaposition of tourism in a country with so few freedoms.

Author Lucas Strazzeri recently released a new book, "Afghanistan, Fortress of Cannabis." With rare images, Strazzeri takes us on a journey through the history of cannabis, shining a light on the ...

"The community of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music is a mosaic, a smaller mosaic of the beautiful, diverse Afghanistan." The school quickly gained international prominence; its ...

"Happiness is a Toyota feeling", "Toyota sets the standard" and "Beautiful Corolla" have become the unofficial slogans of Kabul's grinding traffic jams. Corollas flooded Afghanistan after the ...

PATAN KHEL, Afghanistan — "How beautiful is the spring of freedom!" exclaims elegant Pashto graffiti on a highway stop out of Kabul. The graffiti, in a Taliban stronghold, celebrates their ...