By LYNNE O’DONNELL When Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani took office, he ushered in a period of hope for the country’s traumatized and war-weary people that decades of violence would soon…
By RAHIM FAIEZ FILE – In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 file photo, Afghan men, who their fingers have been cut off by Taliban fighters as a punishment for voting,…
By TIA GOLDENBERG Newly elected Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, right, raises a toast with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June, 10, 2014.…
By KATHY GANNON In this Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 photo, an Afghan man has his picture taken to register for the upcoming Afghan elections in a mosque, used as a…
By RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan police arrive to secure the area after a car bomb detonated outside an ISAF civilian personnel compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct 18, 2013. Police said…
By PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother Abdul Qayyom Karzai registers his candidacy in next year’s presidential election at the independent election commission office in Kabul,…
By PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan men offer funeral prayers near the bodies of civilians killed in a NATO air strike, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul,…
