Hundreds – possibly thousands – of Taliban fighters on motorcycles stormed through the strategic northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Saturday night.

Relief agencies expressed hope that an ouster of the Taliban from Mazar-e Sharif will put much of northern Afghanistan under the control of the Northern Alliance, and persuade the Uzbek government ...

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN – Fatima was born with a disability which confines her to a wheelchair. When she started school, she endured bullying and insults. She would often come home crying.

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan lawmaker says the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, has fallen to the Taliban after the insurgents launched a major assault there earlier in ...

Afghanistan's fourth-largest city fell into the hands of Taliban fighters Saturday, according to a lawmaker.

The Taliban entered Afghanistan’s northern metropolis of Mazar-e-Sharif, eliminating one of the last significant sources of resistance to the insurgents, as President Ashraf Ghani sought to ...

They finally rolled into Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan's fourth largest city. "The Rauffis are in Mazar-e-Sharif, and myself and the people I was now working with are engaged in solving a few ...

In the years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. veterans and citizens have fought to help Afghans left behind, even hatching a daring fake wedding plot to help hundreds escape.

Security is a rare commodity in Afghanistan. But in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, Charles Recknagel says in this reporter's notebook, there is enough of it that business is booming.

Afghanistan once attracted thousands of tourists. At the Blue Mosque in Mazar-e Sharif, it is easy to see why.