At a tiny, two-pump gas station off the two-lane highway running through Afghanistan's Logar province, Mohammad Farooq, the attendant, was unequivocal in his view of the United States. “Thank God the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Like many people, my image of Afghanistan has been shaped by what I read and see in the media. Women in blue burqas, fields of opium-producing poppies, fierce-looking, turbaned ...

It still amazes me how the snow has changed the vast patches of beige to glorious visions of white. The terrain of Afghanistan is part of what has made it a rugged country difficult to tame. The ...

Two years ago, the Afghan government constructed and armed at Washington’s great expense dissolved one provincial capital at a time. The Taliban occupied Kabul on August 15. America’s role in ...

Ezanullah, one of thousands of young Taliban fighters from the countryside who rode into Afghanistan’s capital over the weekend, had never seen anything like it. The paved streets of Kabul were lined ...

''It's absolutely true that security is worse in places where people are growing poppies," said Diane Johnson, Afghanistan program director for Mercy Corps. She said the Portland, Ore. organization ...

KULANGAR, AfghanistanKULANGAR, Afghanistan — At a tiny, two-pump gas station off the two-lane highway running through Afghanistan’s Logar province, Mohammad Farooq, the attendant, was unequivocal in ...