An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan’s high-altitude Salang pass, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens. Afghan medical staff carry the bodies of the victims who lost their ...

KABUL (Reuters) - An accident in the landmark Salang alpine tunnel that connects Afghanistan's capital to its north killed at least 12 people and injured dozens, authorities said on Sunday.

After overthrowing the government, the Taliban are now trying to save what’s left of the roads they spent years blowing up, with none more critical than a two-mile-high pass through the Hindu Kush.

Eighty percent of Afghanistan's commerce passes through the crumbling Salang Tunnel. Repairing it, or building a new one, will cost millions of dollars. Photo: Paula Bronstein/WSJ Trump Says 150 ...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Sept. 10, 2012) -- The 10th Sustainment Brigade conducted the first aerial delivery mission near the Salang tunnel, Afghanistan, Aug. 26, proving aerial resupply is ...

Doctors collect the bodies of victims in a fuel tanker explosion in the Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Over a dozen people were ...

SALANG, Afghanistan—It had already taken Abdul Wali all morning to make the trip, hauling fuel some 200 miles from the border of Uzbekistan along a potholed highway. But the worst part of his journey ...

SALANG, Afghanistan-- Bent under heavy winds and laboring to breathe in the frigid, thin air, international teams on Thursday rescued about 500 people trapped by an avalanche of snow. Four people died ...

Residents of Kabul's District 4 are grappling with a severe water crisis as groundwater levels plunge. They urge the Islamic ...