I spent my evening at a watering hole in Kabul known as “L’Atmo,” best pronounced with an elongated English oooooh, short for “l’atmosphère,” but by no stretch of the imagination, lacking in the latter; that is, if you think that atmosphere requires an entire tribe of posers to prove its existence. It’s an overpriced, pseudo-French […]

The national Afghan football team practices at the infamous stadium where Taliban performed executions in Kabul. © Anne Holmes
I arrived in Kabul two days ago. My first impressions are nothing like what I expected. The city is calm, the people are extremely friendly, and it’s easy to forget that at any moment anything could happen. […]

These are the words of Col. Victor Petrenko, chief of staff to the top U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan, as quoted in Editor and Publisher:
“”When untrained people take photographs or video, there is a very real risk that the images or videography will capture visual details that are not as they originally were,” he […]