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 ...

Aria Aber’s splendid “Good Girl” introduces just such a voice ... tattooed eyebrows over gray-green eyes, hair always bleached blond. She loved complaining and gave birth to seven children ...