JALALABAD, Afghanistan _ When Hawa Alam Nuristani ran for a seat in the Afghan parliament five years ago, gunmen ambushed her on a campaign visit to remote mountain villages and she survived a ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – When Hawa Alam Nuristani ran for a seat in the Afghan parliament five years ago, gunmen ambushed her on a campaign visit to remote mountain villages and she survived a ...

Omar Nuristani would go to Santana High soccer games and watch. He’d see his classmates playing, knowing he could help, but there was nothing he could do. He was academically ineligible. It certainly ...

The U.S. military said airstrikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. The province's governor said 22 civilians, including a woman and a child, were ...

There are a lot of things that make Nuristan unique among Afghanistan's 34 provinces. Many of its jagged mountains are blanketed in fir trees, making this northeastern province look more like Montana ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (left) prays with Independent Electoral Commission chief Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani in Kabul, Sept. 26, 2014. Getty Images Afghanistan’s top electoral official resigned ...

Read about Kakail Nuristani cricket player from Afghanistan profile, stats, rankings, records, videos, photos at ESPNcricinfo ...

Nuristani as she appears on the ballot, where her accompanying symbol is a butterfly Many of the 328 women competing for seats in the lower house of Afghanistan’s national parliament, the People's ...

Read about Khalid Nuristani cricket player from Afghanistan profile, stats, rankings, records, videos, photos at ESPNcricinfo ...

A group of women in Herat have dedicated themselves to continuing a nearly lost, centuries-old tradition of wood carving that is unique to Afghanistan. 1 An Afghan woman engages in Nuristani wood ...