In 2005, a new show was launched on television in Afghanistan to find new musical talent – it was called Afghan Star and was inspired by formats like American Idol and the X-Factor. The programme came ...

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.Long before the name Afghanistan appeared in written record, the region formed one of the ...

"It's easy to enter Afghanistan, but it's very difficult to stay there," said Suleman Raja, professor at the University of Baluchistan, in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, near the Afghan border.

Nov. 16, 2006 — -- When American Nancy Hatch Dupree found out she had been dubbed "Afghanistan's grandmother," she "went into orbit," she said. The Afghans she worked with didn't understand her ...

Luke Basso has been producing documentary short films on veterans and military history since he was in high school. He recently returned from Afghanistan and tells WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat ...

Tucked away in a modest Kirkland apartment is Mohammed Khalid Roashan, Afghanistan's former deputy minister for information and culture before he was forced into retirement by the Soviet-controlled ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, November 14 (UNHCR) - The final results of Afghanistan's landmark parliamentary elections were only declared on Sunday, after several delays, but Shinkai Karokhail was already at ...

"I really feel like we were part of Afghanistan history," the 35-year-old said. "We really bridged a gap that existed, and I think we are doing the most responsible, transparent thing." Schroeder, 20, ...

Donald Trump is claiming victory after a large US military operation in Venezuela that ended with Nicolas Maduro seized in ...