An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesman said Monday. The mine, which the children found near ...

Habibullah set off from his home in western Afghanistan determined to find work in Iran, only for the 15-year-old to freeze ...

Journalist Anna Badkhen chronicles life in a small Afghan village in her new book, The World Is A Carpet. A village of 240 people, Oqa survives on... Mapping 'The World' Of A Remote Afghan Village ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. military now acknowledges making a deadly mistake two weeks ago in a nighttime raid on a village near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Pentagon sources ...

CHAHAK, Afghanistan -- More than 100 people were injured and an entire village destroyed in western Afghanistan's second major earthquake in four days, authorities said, though deaths were few as ...

The hardscrabble village of Kashkak, a collection of mud-brick homes perched on a dusty plateau in western Afghanistan, is now a pile of rubble. The village was flattened by a magnitude 6.3 quake ...

DASHT-E QALEH, AFGHANISTAN—We’ve lost this war. So how much will it cost? In 1842, the First Afghan War ended with an infamous retreat across the Hindu Kush that cost between 10,000 and 15,000 Brits ...

Twice a month, Noor Agha Faqiri lights up the kiln at his small workshop around 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of the Afghan capital to fire a fresh batch of pottery. Faqiri is one of dozens of ...

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 37 people died and hundreds were still trapped in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday when a snow avalanche covered an entire village near the northern border with ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesman said Monday. The mine, which the ...

When freelance journalist Anna Badkhen returned to Afghanistan in 2011, she set her eyes on a region so remote it doesn't exist on Google Maps. In her new book, The World Is A Carpet: Four Seasons in ...