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Yaqoob AkbaryThe writer works for the New York TimesThe fear from a week of unrelenting earthquakes is palpable throughout the northwestern city of Herat in Afghanistan. Makeshift tents made of sticks...

Najim RahimThe writer is a reporter in the Afghanistan bureau of NYTFor years before the Taliban seized power and the economy collapsed, Jamila and her four children had clung to the edge of survival....

Zia ur-RehmanAbdul Razak walking through his farm, which remains flooded three weeks after the destructionThe young woman waded into the waist-deep floodwater that covered her farmland, scouring...

Violent swells have swept away roads, homes, schools and hospitals across much of Pakistan. Millions of people have been driven from their homes, struggling through waist-deep, fetid water to reach...