Band-e Amir, situated around 3,000 metres (9,840 ft) above sea level and a couple of hours drive from the renowned Buddhist sites of Bamiyan, usually attracts thousands of visitors a year seeking ...

Hemmed in by rugged mountains, Afghanistan is prone to a range of natural disasters, but its earthquakes cause the most fatalities, killing about 560 people on average each year and causing annual ...

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Across 600 kilometres of hard, winding roads, Marwa and Aisha have returned to the mountains of Badakhshan and the land of ...

The winter landscape around the deep, blue mountain lakes of Band-e-Amir in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan presents an arresting spectacle empty of people - but the absence of visitors is ...

FILE - In this 1984 file photo, Afghan guerrilla leader, Ahmad Shah Massoud, center, is surrounded by Mujahideen commanders at a meeting of the rebels in the Panjshir Valley in northeast Afghanistan.

Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, with a fault line also running ...

The Associated Press SURMAD, Afghanistan - U.S. bombers pounded al-Qaida and Taliban positions in the eastern mountains of Afghanistan on Sunday after a 1,500-strong coalition ground attack the day ...

The U.S. retreat from Afghanistan has torn at our heartstrings and caused the not-for-profit Mountain Bike Afghanistan to redouble our efforts. As we like to say it is a long race, and one pedal at a ...

Afghanistan experienced a magnitude 4.3 earthquake on Monday morning. This follows several other tremors in November. A powerful 6.3 magnitude quake on November 4th caused significant casualties and ...