"They want to put up shoddily-built, cheap, multi-storey buildings which don't retain anything of what is so wonderful about Old Kabul," Mr Stewart says. The foundation plans to restore a series of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — There’s a glimmer of the old Kabul hiding in the new one — if you know where to look. It’s there in the crowded snooker halls where young men in jeans hover around ...

U.S. forces strike Taliban positions on the front lines near the Old Kabul road, October 2001. (Ron Haviv / VII / Redux) O ur foundational mistake was our lack of commitment.