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 ...

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 ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak once trudged up the steep, snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains on foot. However, the Taliban's resurgence shattered their dreams ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mainland Afghanistan, to the west ... into Kyrgyz territory—requires at least a three-day journey through the mountains, on a trail where a fall could be deadly. The closest significant town ...