The Taliban arrive into Mazar-e-Sharif on motorcycles. Yet no other parties to the fight – including uprising forces commanded by local leaders Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Muhammad Nur ...

Situated about 100 miles from the Uzbekistan border, Mazar-e Sharif is hardly a central city in Afghanistan, nor is it the country's most populated or industrialized.

Mazar-e-Sharif NPR's Lawrence Sheets in northern Afghanistan reports on the aftermath of a bloody battle between Northern Alliance troops and foreign Taliban fighters inside a 19th-century ...

The capture of Mazar-e-Sharif is expected to open up vital supply lines to the opposition from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Three factions of the Northern Alliance were moving on the city, ...

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 the day. The lawmaker ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Nov. 11 -- Women walked in the streets without veils for the first time in more than two years in Mazar-e Sharif today as the city in northern Afghanistan began to emerge ...

opinion Commentary. I got permission from the Taliban to leave Mazar-e-Sharif, but my Afghan friends remain behind The first dawn came, and it went, with no option but to hunker down.

July 28, 2013— -- Women in Mazar-e-Sharif have straddled the worlds between Western freedoms and conservative traditions for a decade. As the Taliban gains strength and the West pulls out ...

Mazar-e Sharif, close by the Uzbek border, is one of Afghanistan's safest cities in a region where the Taliban is rapidly reviving. While most of Balkh Province around Mazar-e Sharif is peaceful ...

Agha Jan, an elderly farmer from Balkh’s Chimtal district, moved to the outskirts of Mazar-e Sharif three months ago. 10 Asadullah, 7, lives in a mud-brick house with his family of eight.

Known as CS-1, the agent interviewed Lindh at the time of the Mazar-e-Sharif revolt, which resulted in the death of CIA officer Johnny Micheal Spann.

Lisa talks with NPR's Lawrence Sheets from Mazar-e-Sharif, where it's being reported that hundreds of Taliban troops have been killed in what Northern Alliance forces describe as a prison riot.