Multimedia: Photo Essays

Three to four times a day, every day, cargo trains carrying thousands of gallons of jet fuel roll across the Kazakh border into Kyrgyzstan, making their way across the flat, barren landscape...

Set up in southwestern Kabul in 1961 during the reign of King Zahir Shah, Jangalak quickly became the nucleus of Afghanistan’s emerging proletariat and took center stage during strikes and labor...

Armed security forces patrolled the streets and armored personnel carriers parked at key intersections in Osh on October 10 as voters went to the polls to elect their first parliament since June's...

Twenty-nine Afghan women graduated as the country's first female officers during a ceremony that brought smiles, confetti, cheers and tears at the Afghan National Military Academy. But while it...