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Though they've kept up their usual habit of doing cover songs, it's been a while since we've heard new original music from the Afghan Whigs. That drought ends today, however, with "House Of I," their ...

The Afghan Whigs return today with their first original song in four years, after sharing a pair of covers a few months back. “House of I,” produced and mixed by Greg Dulli and Christopher Thorn, ...

Mohammed Nazeer Paktiawa, a 41-year-old Afghan father of six, died at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas on March 14, 2026, while in ICE custody. Courtesy of GoFundMe A 41-year-old Afghan father of ...

For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban seized power in the country. For others, life under hard-line Islamist rule ...

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The ...

Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, arrive at Circuit Court for a hearing in an ongoing custody battle over an Afghan orphan, March 30, 2023, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, ...

The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in ...