A student stands in class at Pashtunistan School. (Mikhail Galustov/Post)
Children turn to boarding schools as the Afghan government effectively cedes large areas to the Taliban.
A suicide attempt and a court case reveal challenges that women face 11 years after the Taliban’s fall.
With the U.S. military sending its choppers home, the Afghan army is turning to rudimentary tools of war.
Mental health patients are chained to a cell for 40 days of living on bread, water and black pepper.
In Kandahar, two boys might have been expected to inherit their fathers’ allegiances. Instead, they embraced each other.
This series examines what U.S. forces are leaving behind in Afghanistan after more than a decade of war.
Civilians who graze animals or collect metal on the range are often injured by ammunition that’s been left behind.
Two brothers — among the few literate men in their Eastern Afghanistan village — are quietly trying educate Afghan girls.
An Afghan facilitator plays a crucial role in returning insurgents’ bodies to their families.
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As U.S. military turns campaign against insurgents over Afghan forces, moving supplies is shifting to donkeys.
Some believe that those with mental disorders will be healed after spending 40 days in one of the shrine's cells.
Boys of fathers killed fighting on opposite sides of the war eat, play and study together.
A growing number of Afghan children are being coerced into a life of abuse.
Scrap metal collectors are reaping injury, blindness and burns from unexploded ordnance in an unfenced field in Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan, girls attend informal school in family’s living room, defying Taliban edict.
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