A marvel of Soviet engineering when it was first opened in 1964, the Salang Pass tunnel remains the major artery in Afghanistan’s sparse transportation network. The tunnel cuts through the Hindu Kush ...

The Americans S03E05: "Salang Pass" Once in every seven or so episodes of The Americans, I'll shout out loud at my TV screen for Phil or Elizabeth to "just quit Directorate S already!" I get that they ...

After overthrowing the government, the Taliban are now trying to save what’s left of the roads they spent years blowing up, with none more critical than a two-mile-high pass through the Hindu Kush.

Afghan authorities has reopened the mountainous Salang Pass connecting the capital of Kabul to the northern region after avalanches claimed the lives of 172 peoples last Monday and Tuesday, a local ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Helicopters ferried rescuers to and bodies away from the site of massive avalanches that blocked an important mountain pass north of Kabul as the death toll soared to 166, ...

An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan’s high-altitude Salang pass, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens. Afghan medical staff carry the bodies of the victims who lost their ...

SALANG PASS, AfghanistanSALANG PASS, Afghanistan — Dense fog forced rescuers to search on foot for the wreckage of an Afghan passenger plane carrying 44 people, including six foreigners, that crashed ...

(MENAFN- Daily Outlook Afghanistan) KABUL - Reconstruction of the Salang Pass has started, said Yama Yari, the Minister of Public Works (MoPW), adding that before the onset of winter they are hoping ...

UH-60M Black Hawk flight crews with the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and the 10th CAB, 10th Mountain Division, conduct a personnel movement mission through the ...

The folks behind Fremont's Salang Pass sure figured out how to spruce up their strip mall space with some Afghan soul. Surveying the restaurant from its entrance, you can glimpse only a ...

The Salang pass, one of the highest mountain highways in the world at around 3,650 metres (12,000 feet) was built by Soviet-era specialists in the 50s and includes a 2.6-kilometre tunnel. CHARIKAR: An ...

An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan's high-altitude Salang pass, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, officials said on Sunday. The incident happened late on Saturday in the ...