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By Farid Behbud KABUL, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan national currency afghani has continued to devalue to a lowest against the U.S. dollar in years, multiply

By Farid Behbud KABUL, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan national currency afghani has continued to devalue to a lowest against the U.S. dollar in years, multiply

From the blog of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury at The Times of Israel

Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan on August 15, at least 153 media outlets have shut down, pushing thousands of Afghan journalists into unemployment. Many of them have turned to manual labo…

Twins Eli and Brian Hemmert of North Scottsdale weren’t sure what they wanted to do for their b’nai mitzvah project — until Aug. 27.

Haji Mohammad Pahlawan waves his whip in the air, pulling his grey stallion away from the calf carcass he has just dumped in a goal to claim victory in a tournament of buzkashi, Afghanistan’s national sport.

Local officials from Kunduz province say that two children were killed, and five others were wounded when a mortar round exploded.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has begun the process of enrolling male and female schoolteachers in Afghanistan to pay teachers’ salaries as soon as possible. Janet Foglar, UNICEF’s director

Milestones in evolution and history

In his new book, “The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope,” Bernard-Henri Lévy recounts the dangers he encountered in the places he writes about, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.