MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan -- What would Afghanistan look like without war? It could look like the oasis of peace that is the Blue Mosque standing in its flower-filled park in the center of Mazar ...

An man cleans the yard of the Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh province, northern Afghanistan, July 12, 2020. After a five-month shutdown due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, the ...

Veil Is Lifted in Mazar-e Sharif. New Freedoms Embraced as City Emerges From Taliban Rule. ... Women prayed at the central mosque for the first time since the Taliban seized the city in 1999. ...

The blast in Mazar-i-Sharif, one of Afghanistan’s economic hubs, was the latest in a series of attacks on one of its religious minorities and was claimed by an ISIS affiliate.

An explosion claimed by the Islamic State at a Shi'ite mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday killed at least 11 people, a health official said, one of a series of blasts ...

Two powerful explosions hit two mosques in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province on Thursday. According to the reports, at least 30 people were killed and 100 injured in the explosion that ...

A series of explosions in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif has killed nine people while a blast at a mosque in the capital Kabul left at least two worshippers dead, according to officials.

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 ...

A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people, including students.

FILE – This frame grab image from video, shows a Taliban fighter standing guard outside the site of a bomb explosion inside a mosque, in Mazar-e-Sharif province, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 21 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school.