The sesame are pressed not by hand but by camel power to extract their precious oil
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The Taliban have tried to kill Zainullah, a former translator for the French Army, twice already
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The T20 series has reignited interest in the game as fans and players alike refuse to be intimidated
A young Afghan woman was stoned to death after being accused of adultery, a medieval punishment that harks back to the dark days of Taliban rule.
The confusion around the US airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital underlines the "crucial need for an independent investigation".
This is not the first time the US has bombed a hospital.
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The start of the Afghan Taliban’s annual offensive on Friday is expected to precede the bloodiest fighting season in a decade as Nato forces pull out.
Taliban threats and conservative beliefs are preventing women’s cricket in Afghanistan, where it is believed that women should not compete in public.
Many world leaders are criticising the torture methods of the CIA, revealed this week in a US Senate report, and they are calling for legal action.
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Ashraf Ghani has condemned the CIA torture detailed in a US Senate report, saying there can be "no justification for these kinds of actions".
Werner Groenewald, the South African aid worker killed in Afghanistan, tried to protect his children from the gunmen after he was shot in the leg.
Werner Groenewald dedicated 12 years of his life in Kabul, Afghanistan before he and his two children were killed by Taliban suicide bombers.
Foreign troops have pulled back from Helmand province as their withdrawal from Afghanistan begins, leaving local forces to fight the Taliban.
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A Taliban attack has killed 18 people and wounded around 150 in Afghanistan, while Nato has warned that accords over Afghan troops have to be signed.
Books about Afghanistan tell tales of war, kite-flying, the Taliban and patience stones.
About 60% of Aghanistan’s eligible voters turned out for the second round of presidential voting despite rocket barrages and other attacks.
News analysis: US interest in the Afghanistan region is now waning, but various extremist factions will remain.
The last of the United States military forces will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 2001 attacks in New York.
Officials have given up hope of finding survivors and begun helping the more than 4 000 displaced villagers in the area.
The first snapshot of the Afghanistan elections puts the pair of ex-ministers in the lead. But two minority candidates could decide the final result.
Exceeding turnout predictions, thousands of Afghans took to the polls to cast their votes for a new president despite Taliban threats.
Despite cold weather and the Taliban rejecting Afghanistan’s election as a foreign plot, voters turned out in large numbers to choose a new president.
Four gunmen opened fire on guests in a luxury Kabul hotel restaurant in the latest violent attack in Afghanistan’s capital city.
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai is deciding whether to veto a "backward" law that would restrict prosecutions for domestic and child abuse.
The proposed law allows men to attack their women relatives without consequence, unravelling gains made in a country where "honour" killings are rife.
It’s not just refugee law. The low status accorded to unbelievers has now become a matter of systematic civic exclusion, writes Zoe Williams.
Afghanistan says it will follow through with its plan to release 88 prisoners the US considers dangerous – further souring relations between the two.
A Taliban suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-packed vehicle next to a Nato military convoy in Kabul, say officials.
Shocking and often bemusing to outsiders, the modern art produced by a small group of young Afghans would come as a surprise to most art connoisseurs.
Suicide bombers have targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing nine people and injuring 21 others.
The Afghan president made the announcement after the US said it would meet the Taliban
The Afghan government has praised its security forces for beating back a Taliban assault on central Kabul that left seven dead.