Pamela Constable

Widening roads and replacing monuments, officials erase relics of adversaries and fulfill long-awaited plans.

A Washington Post reporter writes about taking solace in his harmonious voice.

Washing clothes in the snow, heating homes with scavenged trash, Afghan families struggle to survive

The army general seized power in a coup in 1999 and ruled until 2008. After a legal saga, he was sentenced to death in absentia in 2019 for high treason.

The rush toward the airport appears to reflect the increasing desperation of daily life in Afghanistan making a flight to an earthquake zone attractive.

The floods in summer 2022 were Pakistan’s worst natural disaster since the country’s founding in 1947.

Scores of aides and supporters have abandoned the powerful former prime minister since his arrest May 9 and a broader military crackdown.

The remote Afghan city, the Taliban’s spiritual center, is hosting more regime officials and foreign dignitaries as Hibatullah Akhundzada consolidates power.

The town of Moshchun was a site of heavy fighting as Russian forces tried, and failed, to conquer the Ukrainian capital. Residents have returned and are rebuilding.

Gabriel Boric attended ceremonies for Salvador Allende, killed in the 1973 CIA-backed coup, and an exiled diplomat killed in Washington three years later.