On election eve, Afghan voters worry about violence and fraud more than who wins
KABUL — Outside the high-walled campus of Qala Kashif high school, one of many schools in the Afghan capital that will become polling centers for...
Sri Lanka’s gantlet of grief: Homes turned into makeshift funeral parlors
Every few blocks, another concrete-walled house in the modest Christian community of Negombo, Sri Lanka, had been turned into a funeral parlor. Inside, the dead...
To survive in Kabul, boys scavenge for treasure in the city’s trash VIEW
Afghanistan's capital of 6 million is full of new apartments and shopping malls, but it is also densely overcrowded and full of desperately poor people....
US commander survives deadly attack that reportedly kills top Afghan police general
Gunfire erupted Thursday in the compound of an Afghan provincial governor shortly after a high-level meeting involving the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Austin...
At least 57 Afghans killed in Kabul suicide bombing, health officials say
The Islamic State took responsibility for the attack, which targeted people waiting for voter ID cards, raising concerns about the government's ability to register 14...
At least 30 die in Afghan violence, including 10 Shiites in Kabul suicide attack
KABUL, Afghanistan - At least 30 people died in a burst of violence around Afghanistan on Friday, including 10 mostly civilian victims of a suicide...