SHINDAND, Afghanistan — Across nine square miles of arid flatland in Herat province lies evidence of the shattered past and robust present of Shindand Air Base.

SHINDAND, Afghanistan — In the U.S.-built district hospital of Shindand in western Afghanistan, the surge in patients took doctors by surprise. As their wards filled up in recent months, they ...

Shindand - which has been under US control since only August last year - was seen as the most likely starting point. But the American commander for the region denies Iran is the focus for the US ...

SHINDAND, Afghanistan - From a boy's school courtyard, one could see hundreds of young eyes peering out what had once been glass windows. Some were gaping holes, others had shards of remaining ...

SHINDAND, Afghanistan (Feb. 3, 2013) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of a wastewater treatment plant on Forward Operating Base Shindand in Herat province, western ...

Shindand Air Base, Afghanistan, Oct. 13, 2011: An expanse known as “the boneyard” at Shindand Air Base in Herat province holds vestiges of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan that ended in 1989.

SHINDAND, Afghanistan—The Afghan government is giving financial and military support to a breakaway Taliban faction, according to some Afghan and U.S. coalition officials, ...

A new headquarters is being built at the Shindand air base in Afghanistan. But orders for warplanes promised by the United States are delayed and the Afghan Air Force is unlikely to be fully ...