THE CROSSING
List of THE CROSSING articles
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Anna Badkhen Three Weeks in a Hopeless Land
I returned to a place I saw liberated in 2001. Now the Taliban are back, and the only thing that has improved is the cell-phone reception.
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Anna Badkhen My Afghan Home
Nearing the end of the road, our diarist reflects on the unlikely sanctuary she found in a blighted land.
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Eternal Enemies, One Mile Apart
Our correspondent visits two Afghan villages hardened by centuries of hatred -- and separated by only a short stretch of road.
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Anna Badkhen In the Children’s Ward
Visiting the pediatrics center at an Afghan city hospital, in a country where only three out of four children live to be five.
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Anna Badkhen Homesick for Nowhere
Refugees from a place that no longer exists, these Afghan settlers live in a slapped-together collection of tents on land that belongs to their ancestral enemy.
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Sion Touhig/Getty Images Is the U.S. Airlifting Taliban Troops into Northern Afghanistan?
No. But the question itself poses more questions than you might think.
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Anna Badkhen Warped Lives
In a tiny room with no door, in a village with no roads, a drugged woman ties thousands of knots to weave a rug for others to walk on.
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Anna Badkhen Afghanistan’s Little Men
Stopping through Mazar-e-Sharif, our correspondent witnesses one of the most disturbing side effects of the region's poverty: young boys with old faces.
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SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images Afghanistan’s Boys in Blue
With cops like these, who needs robbers? Our diarist meets one of Afghanistan's finest.
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Anna Badkhen How Do Afghans Relax?
They go take a hike -- and so does our diarist, spending a day of leisure on hills that were once bloody battlefields.
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MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images Helpless to Help in Afghanistan’s Local Government
Back in Kunduz, encounters with the unfortunate men whose job it is to keep northern Afghans safe and secure.
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Ruins and Reunions
Our correspondent finds her friends, at last.
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Anna Badkhen Earthquakes and Other Disturbances
Beginning the second week of her journey, our diarist encounters some shaky territory on the way to Kunduz.
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Majid Saeedi/Getty Images The Muezzin of the Blue Mosque
Finding some solace with an unlikely old friend.
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Anna Badhken ‘In My Father’s House They Gathered All the Women into One Room’
Visiting the victims of Afghanistan's revenge rapes.
