Multimedia: Afghanistan

Central Asia: Photographer's "White Road" Exposes Life in White, Black, Shades of Gray

January 11, 2013 - 11:28am

by: A Book Review by David Trilling

Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
Russia
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan

Anyone who’s traveled in the vast open spaces of Central Asia has heard it, or seen it plastered on roadside monuments punctuating long stretches of highway: Ak Jol in Kazakh and Kyrgyz and Oq Yol...
Interview 180: Afghan News Media Industry Matures, But Future Is Uncertain

October 26, 2012 - 12:00pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Afghanistan

Massoud Hossaini is a staff photojournalist for Agence France-Presse and the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his image of a suicide bombing in Kabul,...
Interview 180: As NATO Troops Withdraw From Afghanistan, Journalism Suffers

October 19, 2012 - 2:55am

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Afghanistan

Massoud Hossaini is a staff photojournalist for Agence France-Presse and the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his image of a suicide bombing in Kabul,...
Turkey: Kyrgyz Nomads Struggle to Make Peace with Settled Existence

May 18, 2012 - 12:57pm

by: Theodore Kaye

Afghanistan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkey

The hills of eastern Anatolia are better suited for sheep herding than for keeping yaks. Some 1,100 Kyrgyz found this out the hard way when they migrated to Turkey 30 years ago from Afghanistan's...
Afghanistan: War’s Tenth Anniversary Highlights Mixed Feelings in Kabul

October 11, 2011 - 12:55pm

by: Aunohita Mojumdar

Afghanistan

As far as cautionary tales go, this one is worth noting: Afghans celebrate all their modern-age anniversaries of liberation, except one. The day of victory over the British in 1919 is commemorated...
Afghanistan: Sufi Mysticism Makes a Comeback in Kabul

August 26, 2011 - 12:00pm

by: Iason Athanasiadis

Afghanistan

In a garden in Kabul’s Karte-Seh district, a group of Sufi musicians and poets gather for an evening of mystical melodies. Platters of rice pilau and fruit cover carpets spread across the lawn....
Afghanistan: Illegal Migrants Adapt to Hardships in Greece

August 24, 2011 - 12:00pm

by: Jonathan Alpeyrie

Afghanistan
Turkey

As it struggles to cope with debt woes, Greece is also is burdened by an illegal migrant dilemma.
Afghanistan: Inside Kabul’s Safe Havens of Beauty

May 13, 2011 - 12:00pm

by: Iason Athanasiadis

Afghanistan

Amid the hardships and uncertainties of life in Kabul these days, beauty salons, once banned by the Taliban, have re-emerged as sanctuaries for Afghan women. For many, the salon experience is...
Afghanistan: IDPs Stranded at the “Slaughterhouse”

January 27, 2011 - 6:30am

by: Iason Athanasiadis

Afghanistan

A third of a million desperate people once lived in Maslakh, a camp of wind-blown mud brick houses erected upon a brittle lunar landscape in western Afghanistan. Ten years after the US-led...
Afghanistan: A Night-Vision Look at Helmand Medevac Crews

January 19, 2011 - 1:00pm

by: Nichole Sobecki

Afghanistan

Each mission begins the same way. The cry of “Medevac! Medevac! Medevac!” crackles from a hand-held radio and the team is off, sprinting towards the waiting Black Hawk helicopter.

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