Three explosions outside the entrance to a girls’ school in Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people, many of them students between 11 and 15 years old. More than 100 others were wounded. The attack …
Start your week smart: Cyberattack, vaccine boosters, cicadas, Ramadan, Afghanistan
Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. An injured student is taken to a hospital after a bomb exploded in Kabul, Afghanistan. Seasonal vaccine boosters are possible if there’s a …
Afghanistan Bomb Attack Targeting Schoolgirls Kills at Least 50 People
The attack targeting girls at a school in a Shiite area amplifies concerns that Afghanistan will slip into sectarian violence as the U.S. withdraws.
Voting Rights, Afghanistan, Mother’s Day: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. The Republican Party’s efforts to limit voting rights are making inroads. Florida and Texas became the latest states to move toward limiting voter …
Robert Azzi: In Afghanistan, still the Taliban persist
And that, …is the story of our country, one invasion after another…Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets,” Khaled Hosseini wrote in A Thousand Splendid Suns. “But we’re like …
Robert Azzi: In Afghanistan, still the Taliban persist
And that, …is the story of our country, one invasion after another…Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets,” Khaled Hosseini wrote in A Thousand Splendid Suns. “But we’re like …
US Afghan Envoy Visits Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad is making early May rounds in Central Asia, with visits to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. On May 2, Khalilzad was in Tashkent …
Deadly school bombing in Afghanistan
NBC News’ Richard Engel visited the bomb site in Kabul where police say 50 girls were killed and three times as many were injured. Down the road from the site, 60 victims were at one hospital alone.
Afghanistan Bomb Attack Targeting Schoolgirls Kills at Least 30 People
The attack targeting girls at a school in a Shiite area amplifies concerns that Afghanistan will slip into sectarian violence as the U.S. withdraws.
Bombing outside Kabul, Afghanistan, high school kills at least 30
A bombing outside a high school in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed at least 30 people and injured more than 50 Saturday, government officials said.