Having lost his job as a police trainer after the Taliban takeover last August, Hussain Ali moved back to his village in Afghanistan's central highlands with the intention of farming once more to ...

The Associated Press / An injured person is carried Monday to a military helicopter that landed to evacuate injured victims of an earthquake that killed many people and destroyed villages in eastern ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has jumped to over 800, with at least 2,500 injured, a Taliban government spokesman said Monday. Most of the ...

An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesman said Monday. The mine, which the children found near ...

UNICEF's emergency winter response helps children and families stay warm in Afghanistan, Gaza, Ukraine and other places where ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Dozens of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan were killed after heavy snow and avalanches hit over the weekend. In eastern Afghanistan, at least 50 people died and dozens more were ...

This Stars and Stripes image from 2007 shows service members in the eastern Afghan village of Abchakan in Logar province.

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, July 15 -- A senior Pentagon official said today that the Bush administration "regrets" the loss of civilian life at a village attacked by U.S. warplanes July 1 but has ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesman said Monday. The mine, which the ...