Spring In Afghanistan
List of Spring In Afghanistan articles
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Anna Badkhen The Lost Villages
Saying goodbye to a once-friendly land, now taken without a fight by the Taliban.
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BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images A One-Man Insurgency
How a young Afghan went from policeman to murderer to saint.
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Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images A Groom’s Tale
In rural Afghanistan, girls aren't the only ones getting married too young.
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Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Trauma Center
How do you bring peace to a country where everyone has PTSD and the only therapy is prayer?
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BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images The Fight Goes On
In Afghanistan, bin Laden's dead and the Taliban don't care.
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Anna Badkhen The Gorge of Many Sorrows
Every month, 40 Afghans are killed or injured by Soviet-era land mines. Meet two of them.
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ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images Living on Afghan Time
If you count out time in millennia, ending a 10-year war becomes a lot more complicated.
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ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images The Tale of Forty Maidens
From ancient legend to last week, in Afghanistan, even a castle can't keep women safe.
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Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Cold and Violent
In the first installment of a regular weekly dispatch, Anna Badkhen returns to Northern Afghanistan to find a freezing, chaotic place.
