There And Back Again: One Afghan's Journey To Find Home
In 2000, Auliya Atrafi paid thousands of dollars and risked his life to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. He spent 12 years in England getting educated and becoming a documentary filmmaker.Last...
View ArticleTexas Man Becomes Unlikely CFO Of Ragged Kabul Orphanage
On Saturday afternoons, sometimes with a coworker or two, Siavash Rahbari drives up a rutted side street in Kabul to visit the Window of Hope orphanage.In the living room, there are a dozen boys and...
View ArticleSuicide Bomber Targets Afghan Police
In the Afghan capital Kabul, a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform walked up to a checkpoint outside the headquarters of the Interior Ministry and killed several members of the national police.
View ArticleAfghan Voters Defy Taliban Threat; Vote In Presidential Runoff
Afghans went to the polls on Saturday to vote for a successor to Hamid Karzai who's ruled since 2001. Former foreign minister Adbullah Abdullah faced off against former finance minister Ashraf Ghani.
View ArticleU.N. Official Calls For Calm In Afghanistan After Claims Of Election Fraud
Transcript ARUN RATH, HOST: In Afghanistan today, supporters of presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, held what they called a national day of protest. They came out to echo Abdullah's charges that...
View ArticlePreliminary Results Show Ghani Winning Afghan Presidency
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Preliminary results are out for the run-off in Afghanistan's presidential elections. And the winner seems to be former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani. His opponent,...
View ArticleAfghan Election Numbers Come With A Warning: Results Not Final
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. Today, Afghans are one step closer to knowing who their next president will be. More than three weeks...
View ArticleEarly Vote Tallies Speed The Sparring Between Afghan Candidates
Preliminary voting tallies in the Afghan presidential election, released Monday, did little to ease a brewing political crisis. The losing candidate continued to claim fraud, declaring himself the...
View ArticleAfghan Civilians Suffer During Violent Year
There is renewed fighting in Kandahar as the outcome of the Afghan presidential election remains uncertain. And a new U.N. report says civilian casualties are up significantly from a year ago.
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Foreigners Targeted In Multiple Kabul Attacks
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: That's the sound of a deadly attack in Kabul today amid a surge in militant violence in the Afghan capital. It...
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