Margaritta, a 33-year-old travel influencer from Germany, embarked on a three-month solo trip through Afghanistan in May 2024. Despite a “media echo that Afghanistan was not safe,” she said, “I was ...

A group of bearded, armed men stands behind three people kneeling on the ground, black sacks pulled over their heads.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world ...

One of the world’s most oppressive regimes is cashing in on the growing trend of ‘danger tourism’. In 2021, the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan following a 20-year US military-led mission to ...

IRMO, S.C. (AP) — Mohammad Sharafoddin, his wife and young son walked at times for 36 hours in a row over mountain passes as they left Afghanistan as refugees to end up less than a decade later ...