This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Today the iconic image of Afghanistan is again a young woman—Bibi Aisha, whose husband slashed off her nose ...

Although Afghan ... National Security Council, joint leadership of the Afghan Gender Task Force by the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and the ambassador-at-large for global ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...