Sune Engel Rasmussen

Sune lives in Kabul where he works as a freelance print and multimedia journalist.

Sune Engel Rasmussen a journalist based in Kabul where he reports for The Guardian, The New Republic, Foreign Policy and other outlets. Having spent a few years in Iran, he took what seemed like a natural next step and moved to Afghanistan to watch the military transition and the country’s first peaceful handover of power. He now mainly reports on politics and security, but started out years ago writing long rants about rap. He holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University.

Amid election protests, Afghans wary of ethnic conflict

July 30, 2016Politics

The protests, so far peaceful, are threatening the legitimacy of what could be Afghanistan’s first democratic transition of power.

Detained Washington Post reporter in Iran is being used as political pawn

July 30, 2016Commentary

Afghanistan’s model city is also its kidnapping capital

July 30, 2016Conflict

Three addicts preparing to smoke heroin under a bridge in Kabul’s Pol-e Sokhta neighborhood.

There’s almost no help for Afghanistan’s 1.6 million drug addicts

December 4, 2014Health