An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near one of Afghanistan's largest cities Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, the US Geological Survey said. The USGS issued an orange alert in its pager system, which ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the historic ...

MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan -- The checkpoints are everywhere, tucked into inconspicuous houses and on prominent street corners. At the hospital, competing gunmen strong-arm patients into using their ...

At least 27 people are dead and scores more injured after an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on November 3, just two months after a deadly and ...

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan, April 29 (UNHCR) - As a law student, Abdol Hamid Ansari likes to play by the book - literally. The 25-year-old has started a library and mobile book fair in his northern ...

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan, September 2 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has set up a special tented camp in a desolate and arid region of northern Afghanistan to accommodate hundreds of long-term ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities recently pulled down a monument depicting a 15th-century Uzbek poet -- only to promise two days later to rebuild it, a rapid U-turn that may signal a pragmatic side ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, 25 critically, a disaster ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the ...