I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul has “been witness to many events of moment” in Afghanistan’s recent history, said Bijan Omrani in Literary Review. In the 1970s, it was a “cosmopolitan watering ...