Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak once trudged up the steep, snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains on foot. However, the Taliban's resurgence shattered their dreams, forcing ...

As a part of a television broadcast, world travelers Hal and Halla Linker toured the Afghan countryside in 1973, years before the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took control of the Buddhist site ...

In 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's worst air disaster. In 2006, an Egyptian ferry sank in the Red Sea off the coast of ...

Alireza Bekdeli, the acting ambassador of Iran to Kabul, met with Mawlawi Sarhadi, the Taliban governor of Afghan Bamiyan province during his visit to Bamiyan province, and exchanged views on ...

Feb. 03 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1690, Massachusetts Colony issued the first paper money in America. Advertisement In 1783, Spain recognized the independence of the United States from ...

Bamiyan Governor Abdullah Sarhadi has assured him that he will discuss the matter with the leadership of the Islamic Emirate. Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s acting ambassador in Tehran and the Afghan consul ...

The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in US foreign funding.

Afghanistan, now under the Taliban, is no longer a conflict begging to be solved with a deal. It needs a more nuanced approach than the Trump administration may be capable of. As U.S. President ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological ...

Taliban envoy Suhail Shaheen warned US secretary of state Marco Rubio against making threats after Rubio suggested placing bounties on Taliban leaders for detaining Americans. This follows a ...

Secretary of State Rubio is threatening Taliban leaders with a “very big” bounty after he heard that there are more Americans being held in Afghanistan than previously known. Mr. Rubio said in a post ...