Mahmood Habibi, an American businessman who worked as a consultant for a Kabul-based telecommunications firm, and his driver ...

The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information that helps find Mahmood Habibi, an Afghan-American national it says ...

The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information that helps find Mahmood Habibi, an Afghan-American national it says ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

The Taliban suspended chess — during its first iteration of rule, and now, because it's "a means of gambling," the sports minister Atal Mashwani told the French news service, AFP.

Chess in Afghanistan isn't madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...