KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A battle between insurgents and soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force in the Uruzgan province of central Afghanistan ended with 17 insurgents dead ...

with most heading south toward the mountains bordering the predominantly Hazara region of central Afghanistan known as Hazarajat. After the city of Shiberghan, some 130 kilometers southwest of ...

Three Spanish tourists have been killed by gunmen in the central Afghanistan city of Bamiyan, the Spanish government says. Afghan officials said an Afghan national was also killed, while another ...

So far, Kudratbekov's wolf spider has only been detected in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, a country in central Asia that borders Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. There 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 ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Afghanistan is a place, not a war. Taliban suicide bombings may dominate the news, but the sprawling Central Asian ...

So far Qasaba’s comfortable new apartment blocks on the edge of Afghanistan’s capital city ... which has running water and central heating, luxuries in a city where at least 70 percent of ...

TASS/. Further dialogue with the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) currently in power in Afghanistan is essential for maintaining peace and stability in Central Asia, Chairman of the Federation ...