Before US troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, the harsh rule of the Taliban forbade girls' education. Today...
Jan 04, 2016
The Handover: A drawn-out drawdown of US troops
It's already the longest war in American history, and the end is nowhere in sight. Though President Obama...
Jan 04, 2016
The Forgotten War in Afghanistan: And how the US military tries to keep it that way
One year ago, the United States and allied forces in Afghanistan ceremonially lowered the flag at military headquarters...
Dec 31, 2015
Razia’s way
How do you convince the conservative men of Afghanistan to get behind girls' education? This is the story...
Dec 30, 2015
Can Afghanistan Be Saved?
By Jean MacKenzie KABUL -- Even for Afghanistan, a country where bad news is more the rule than...
Dec 29, 2015
The Zabuli School: The Future
DEH’SUBZ, Afghanistan — The seven girls graduating from the school here on the outskirts of Kabul this fall...
Dec 29, 2015
The First Graduation of the Zabuli school
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Razia Jan woke up before dawn on the eve of the big graduation. It was...
Dec 27, 2015
Syrian Exodus
This summer, a historic wave of immigrants from war-torn Syria made an often perilous journey to Europe. They...
Dec 22, 2015
The Exodus of Refugees: History in the Making
The migration of people tells the history of the world. Migration has been our shared narrative since biblical...
Dec 22, 2015
Photographing the ‘Lost Generation’ of refugees
Italian photographer Alessandro Penso was just chosen as TIME magazine's pick for story of the year for his work on...
Dec 21, 2015