A soldier from the American 101st Airborne Division keeps guard inside a man-made cave in the Zhawar Kili mountain complex, Paktia province, eastern Afghanistan. The soldier, pictured Tuesday ...

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A gold miner lost his life, and two others were injured as a tunnel of a gold mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Wednesday ...

How many caves are there? Thousands. Afghanistan's rugged terrain is honeycombed with natural caverns and man-made tunnels. The Hindu Kush mountains are pocked with caves scooped out of limestone ...

A Hazara Afghan family looks on in front of their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, some 200km from Kabul. - AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were ...