2006-01-21 04:00:00 PDT Kabul, Afghanistan-- Business is booming, said Hassan Saidzada, a watch shop manager in Kabul's glitziest shopping center. Cabinet ministers, jihadi commanders and newly ...

THE GOOD NEWS, for drug fiends, is that Afghanistan has just harvested its biggest opium crop ever, up a whopping 59 percent from last year and big enough to cover 130 percent of the entire world ...

Afghanistan Is Rich. By Neela Banerjee. June 15, 2010 4:13 PM. Tweet Share Share Comment Tweet Share Share Comment On most days, there’s usually something I hear on NPR before 8 a.m. that ...

Just a few hours after I surveyed the scene in Afghanistan and suggested that a decade from now “we’ll all be wondering why we were ever there,” James Risen of the New York Times proposes an ...

The announcement, while welcomed by aid agencies, stands in contrast with the $11 million the oil-rich Muslim kingdom has pledged in humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan this year.