Ali and Leila had a comfortable life in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. They both spent most of their upbringing in an Afghanistan occupied by US troops, marking a new chapter for Afghanistan ...

Ali and Leila had a comfortable life in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. They both spent most of their upbringing in an Afghanistan occupied by US troops, marking a new chapter for Afghanistan ...

Camp Marmal, Afghanistan, Dec. 20, 2012: A Tiger attack helicopter readies for take-off Thursday at Camp Marmal, near Mazar-e Sharif. The German army sent four Tigers to Afghanistan.

(RC North Public Affairs photo by Tech. Sgt. Florian Krumbach/Released) 110702-O-XXXXK-004 MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan. (July 28, 2011) The first German Army Boxer Armored Transport Vehicles deployed ...

In a smaller, more precarious camp, without a community leader, located on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, Sabrena sits cross-legged on a thin blanket in her tent. With one hand, the young Jogi woman ...

But by Saturday, the fall of Mazar-e Sharif — site of furious battles between pro and anti-Taliban forces in the 1990s — convinced U.S. officials that they needed to scramble.

South Asia News: Mazar-e-Sharif, the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban on Saturday after a multipronged assault launched by insurgents, according ...