The Italian government announced on Thursday that Sharbat Gula, who in 1985 gained worldwide fame as the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' image by photojournalist Steve McCurry, is in Rome being evacuated ...

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

"Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country's wars. The police official said the girl known by her greens eyes was arrested after she was found guilty of ...