HERAT, Afghanistan, July 27 (Reuters) - In a nation wrenched by decades of war, perhaps it is of no surprise that one of Afghanistan's most successful brands manufactures what is sorely lacking ...

Dry out with some country-bleached psychedelia ... strip mall spot commands even more attention: the ice cream station. Sheeryakh, an Afghan style of hand-churned ice cream flavored with rosewater ...

The rectangular vanilla bars mechanically dipped in thick chocolate at the Herat ice cream factory in western Afghanistan are a world away from intensifying violence in a war that has dragged on ...

The rectangular vanilla bars mechanically dipped in thick chocolate at the Herat ice cream factory in western Afghanistan are a world away from intensifying violence in a war that has dragged on ...

Photo by Ike Allen. I could fixate on the exemplary chicken kebabs or the crispy, peppery leek bolani at Afghan Restaurant & Sheeryakh, but something else at this strip mall spot commands even more ...