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ABC News visited Camp Joyce, a remote base in eastern Afghanistan where about 700 U.S. soldiers, live at a rnestled along the Pakistan border. Martha Raddatz reports.
The Afghan pony’s hooves sank into the first winter snows blanketing this strategic pass deep in the Hindu Kush, the awesome mountain wall that blocks the anti-Taliban armies facing Kabul fro… ...
COMBAT OUTPOST RAHMAN KHEL, Afghanistan — Lt. Col. Shawn Daniel, standing in the middle of this dusty little outpost beneath the Afghan mountains, reassured the 70 soldiers gathered close around ...
ASADABAD, Afghanistan -- After living through insurgent attacks, government crackdowns, night raids, and airstrikes for generations, residents of a remote mountainous region in Afghanistan have a new ...
Afghanistan’s remote and poor villages hardest hit by earthquake Rudimentary construction of homes located in rocky, unpaved mountains and hillsides said to be key factors in severity of ...
2007-01-21 04:00:00 PDT Konar Province, Afghanistan-- Abdullah Khan, a vigorous middle-aged man who owns much of the land visible from his house in the mountains of Konar's Chowki district, paced ...
"Know you have made me horrendously, undeniably envious." Remote resident shares stunning photos of off-grid home nestled in mountains: 'It's all worth it' first appeared on The Cool Down.
One of the few female tour guides in Afghanistan, Fatima Haidari shares her country with remote tours from where she lives in asylum in Italy.
Camera traps positioned in the rocky terrain of Afghanistan's central highlands by conservationists recently snapped a surprising photograph of a Persian leopard, a top predator that was long ...
The mountain cryosphere encompasses the frozen high-elevation environments of Earth, including glaciers, snow, permafrost, and river and lake ice. High mountain regions are essential sources of ...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban s former supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is believed still in Afghanistan – holed up in remote and rugged central mountains, a Kandahar ...