KABUL -- The road that rings the old city district of Murad Khane is thick with smoke from the hearths of a row of blacksmiths. Until recently, few people in the Afghan capital had much reason to ...

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Kabul is rising from the ashes, shedding decades of war and mountains of trash to rebuild its pummelled culture. When restoration began in the Old City, some locals had moved their 'front door' to ...

"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 ...

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 velvet tables and yell ...