There was a KFC outside our guest house in Kabul. It had a picture of Colonel Sanders. But it was really âœKabul Fried Checkin,â� if the sign above the door was to be believed. </p>

// May. 03, 2013 - 19:54 GMT

So my colleague David got busted by Afghanistanâ™s secret police in Kabul. He spent a day at their office along with two other reporters, and said the food was better than at our hotel. </p>

// May. 02, 2013 - 17:33 GMT

He has an aquiline nose, a close-trimmed beard and a mop of black hair half-hidden under a woolen pakol, or Afghan hat. There is a resemblance to Bob Marley, except for the stern stare, which is more reminiscent of Che Guevara.

// May. 01, 2013 - 17:32 GMT

It rained in Kabul over the weekend. The sky was overcast above the perpetually empty rooftop bar across from our hotel, and the fancy caged birds in our garden shook their heads, though the buzz of construction drilling kept going in the semi-skyscraper towering above the district of Shar-e Naw.

// Apr. 23, 2013 - 20:11 GMT

The guard dog of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) branch in Kabul is named âœDozaâ� (âœdoseâ�). And that's all I'm allowed to say about Russian drug police in Afghanistan. </p>

// Apr. 23, 2013 - 18:26 GMT

Soviet vets open up and share nuggets of wisdom about life and war in Afghanistan, from culinary tips to fighting techniques.

// Apr. 23, 2013 - 01:56 GMT

The Soviet veterans defeated the Afghan side 1–0 in a football game in Kabul on Thursday. I was deeply embarrassed.

// Apr. 22, 2013 - 05:41 GMT

There is a lot of weird souvenir junk on Chicken Street in downtown Kabul.

// Apr. 19, 2013 - 01:12 GMT

The first thing to know about Kabul is that nobody here is trying to kill you or blow you up.

// Apr. 17, 2013 - 20:59 GMT