KARABAGH, Afghanistan -- The signs of hope in this parched and barren plain, laid waste by vengeful Taliban troops three years ago, are difficult to spot at first. But over there, along the walls of a ...

ISTALIF, Afghanistan -- Shop after shop, home after home, there is nothing but rubble and charred wood. For miles along a winding hillside road -- where tourists and dignitaries used to come for the ...

SHOMALI PLAIN, Afghanistan, Nov 9 (UNHCR) - The Mirbacha Khan School, in the Shomali Plain north of Kabul, is thriving again. For years, the education system in Afghanistan had virtually collapsed, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Bibi Amina clutches her baby grandson, rubbing her face against his to quiet his cries as she speaks of her dream: Going home. Amina, who lost her husband and son to war, has ...

Istalif, an hour's drive north of Kabul, sits in the heart of Shomali Plain, once the breadbasket of Afghanistan. The Taliban forced hundreds of thousands of people from the region and destroyed their ...