NURISTAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Building a combat outpost from scratch on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan means flying everything in by helicopter. For the troops of Task Force Saber, ...

Host Renee Montagne describes the scene at Turquoise Mountain in Afghanistan, where old craft masters are passing along their expertise to the next generation. Montagne visited Turquoise Mountain on a ...

SWARTHMORE — Park Avenue resident Samuel Sidiqi added another feather to a hat already bristling with plumage in May when he became the first Afghan national to climb Mount Everest. At least, as far ...

In the far northeast of Afghanistan, among the soaring mountains of Badakhshan province, a quiet transformation is taking place. Here, in a region where history runs deep through stone and soil, the ...

American soldiers in Afghanistan are on "Mountain Patrol " to gather information from insurgents. Senior Airman Jay Hernandez reports. Video courtesy of DVIDS. McLaren CEO Zak Brown On F1 And Business ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Paul Kanninen usually lives on the flat prairie of southwestern Minnesota. This winter, though, he's high up in the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan, working to help rebuild an ...

KABUL, Afghanistan U.S. forces desperately scoured rugged Afghan mountains Friday for an elite American military team missing in the same area where a U.S. helicopter was shot down. A purported ...

In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby son she lost last year after a harrowing birth with no medical care.

A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people in the country's deadliest ...

KABUL/MAZAR DARA, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Rescuers in Afghanistan will try to reach isolated villages in the eastern region of Kunar, the epicentre of an earthquake that killed over 800 people and ...