Four years after the Taliban's ouster, a shiny new office building rises amid Kabul's traditional mud-colored buildings and there is a glitzy shopping mall boasting the country's only escalators.

The Afghan capital, Kabul, got its first five-star hotel amid a building boom fueled by international aid, profits from the opium trade and foreign investment. Five-Star Hotel Opens in Booming ...

Days before Saturday’s attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, the US State Department warned of exactly such an incident. That the warning was so specific – it noted that extremists ...

Afghanistan's Taliban government took over management of Kabul's famed Serena hotel on Saturday, a hotel statement said, a luxury property targeted by ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgent violence wracks the countryside, but a building boom fueled by international aid, profits from the opium trade and foreign investment is remaking Afghanistan's ...