Hundreds – possibly thousands – of Taliban fighters on motorcycles stormed through the strategic northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Saturday night.

Dostum, who lost Mazar-e Sharif in August 1998 after a reign that was often oppressive, joined with former rivals within the Northern Alliance today in agreeing to remove military rule over the city.

Taliban troops defending the front lines outside Mazar-e-Sharif, a city with an estimated population of about 200,000, are being pummeled by U.S. warplanes, while opposition soldiers are waging a ...

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. It is not a Taliban ...

Afghanistan's fourth-largest city fell into the hands of Taliban fighters Saturday, according to a lawmaker.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A lawmaker says the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan, has fallen to the Taliban after the insurgents launched a major assault there ...

Afghanistan's most liberal city is being plagued by a rash of suicides. Afghan women wait to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan at the Hazrat-e Ali shrine in Mazar-i Sharif in ...

Anti-Taliban troops claim they broke through Taliban defenses and captured the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Pentagon sources would not confirm the reports, but called activity "encouraging." ...

Mazar-e-Sharif, home to a famous blue-tiled Muslim shrine, was a stronghold of the Northern Alliance, ethnic militias who helped the U.S. topple the Taliban in 2001.

Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek warlord who controlled Mazar-e-Sharif until the Taliban captured the city three years ago, said in Turkey that the alliance overran the city in a half hour.

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

Mazar-e-Sharif, the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan, has fallen to the Taliban after the insurgents launched a major assault there earlier in the day.