“Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

The largest known database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.

An accusation levelled against a teen-age girl changes the course of her life, in Salar Pashtoonyar’s documentary about life after the Soviet-Afghan war.

A new book looks at a clandestine movement to proselytize in Muslim countries.

The author discusses his story “On the Night of the Khatam.”

In “The Night Doctrine,” by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral, the experiences of U.S.-backed Afghan Special Forces soldiers, and of the civilians they targeted, come together in an intimate portrait of national trauma.

The documentary offers an unrivalled glimpse into the heart of the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and into the truth that the West has failed to grasp about America’s longest war.

The Afghan statesman Zalmai Rassoul is recognized by the governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland—but not by the Taliban.

How the American Dream can become an American nightmare.

After more than two years of neglect by the Trump and Biden Administrations, Mark Frerichs describes how he survived Taliban captivity in Afghanistan.

Following an assassination attempt, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister discusses his views on the Taliban, his relationship with the military, and why he’s more “evolved” than other people.

The Biden Administration has agreed to release $3.5 billion in frozen funds, but will they reach a desperate population?

A year after the last U.S. military flights left, some Afghans who are vulnerable to retribution from the Taliban are being resettled in the U.S. But others are stuck in third-party countries, and many remain trapped in Afghanistan, at great risk.

For the Biden Administration, supporting the Afghan people without empowering the Taliban is the foreign-policy case study from hell.

A year after its withdrawal, the United States must choose between humanitarian concerns in Afghanistan and legitimatizing the country’s religious dictatorship.

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, a U.S. organization shut down the country’s largest network of women’s shelters. Its founders think that it made a huge mistake. 

What does the stark evidence of the renewed relationship between Al Qaeda and Afghanistan’s leaders suggest?

The author discusses “Occupational Hazards,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.

After Trump eviscerated the refugee-resettlement system, the government was unprepared for Afghans displaced by their country’s collapse. A new program lets civilians step up to help.

Senator Tammy Duckworth called for the Biden Administration to free an Afghan drug trafficker in exchange for the release of the American engineer Mark Frerichs, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan.