Mohammed Naeem knew the Kabul street where he and his brothers built matching apartment buildings was too narrow, but he was still in disbelief as their homes were reduced to rubble to widen the road.

From its chaotic old town, Kabul expands into webs of dusty streets running between rectangular, walled compounds that on the eastern side of the city give way to run-down industrial complexes.

Large crowds are jostling outside the banks in Kabul and queues have formed near foreign embassies, a day after the last US troops left Afghanistan. But the BBC's Lyse Doucet says that for the ...

Using his multiple Afghan languages and personal experience as a recent exile himself, former Kabul video journalist Ahmad Seir helped Brussels colleagues tell the story of Afghan asylum seekers ...

A week ago, Taliban militants killed 22 people in a luxury Kabul hotel. Witnesses say the area - also home to offices of the European Union, a hospital and a shopping zone known as Chicken Street ...