Just as with the U.S. military’s experience fighting North Vietnamese insurgents in the harsh jungles of Indochina, the Soviet forces learned that the tough Afghan terrain of mountains ...

And before the U.S.-led air campaign began, the Taliban warned it would wage a guerrilla campaign from the Afghan mountains and the country's vast wilderness. The opposition's drive toward Kabul ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 has struck Afghanistan, as reported by the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The ...

Undated photo of John Chapman, who served as a combat controller with the U.S. Air Force. Dan Schilling, who spent more than 30 years in the military, and Lori Chapman Longfritz, John Chapman’s ...

Joshua Corbett Late in 2001, as Osama bin Laden and his harried entourage slipped into Pakistan over a mountain pass near Tora Bora, Afghanistan, a contingent of U.S. Marines seized the long ...

There are no paved roads linking the craggy, mineral-rich mountains of northeast Afghanistan’s Konar and Nurestan provinces to the outside world, while abundant and more accessible reserves are ...

A family flees across the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan on their way to become refugees in Pakistan (1988) Two young Afghan fighters share a joke during a lull in fighting in fierce ...

The geography and snow-lined mountains are familiar today by British soldiers fighting in the Afghan mountains. The last stand of the 44th is still recalled in Afghan oral tradition as the ...