The wars were in the future — but they weren't very far off. When the Soviets invaded less than two decades later, it would hasten Afghanistan's path towards becoming a very different country.

“The women in Afghanistan are being slowly erased from society, from life, from everything.” Since the Taliban takeover, other marginalised groups have begun to fear for their rights, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Kevin Wills has just sixteen of the 457 portraits left to paint An army veteran is painting portraits of every British soldier who died in 20 years of deployment in Afghanistan. Kevin Wills ...

Officials say rare Pakistani airstrikes have targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring ...

An elderly man reacts to the destruction inflicted after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake ripped through Paktika province in Afghanistan Afghanistan's Taliban government has appealed for more ...

Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said ...