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 ...

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Despite erratic electricity, open sewers and the occasional rocket fired into the city, Kabul now has its first five-star hotel. Opened Tuesday, it offers a health club and two high-end restaurants.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 28, 2009 — -- Today in Kabul, residents woke up to a city buzzing with sound -- explosions, gunfire and then, rocket blasts at two hotels. In two hours, two hotels ...

Desperate guests threw themselves off balconies to their deaths as gunmen roamed Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel firing and throwing explosives in a deadly siege that ended Sunday, an eyewitness ...

KABUL, Afghanistan-- Survivors of the Taliban attack on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel recounted on Monday the ordeal of the deadly, 13-hours-long weekend standoff that claimed 18 lives, including ...

Security forces stand guard near the Intercontinental Hotel after a deadly attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. An Afghan official says that a group of gunmen have attacked the ...

June 28, 2011 <br/>KABUL, Afghanistan &#151; -- Afghan commandos and international forces tonight regained control of a landmark hotel in Kabul four hours after it was stormed by insurgent gunmen ...