When I served with the U.S. Army as a combat engineer in the remote city of Farah, Afghanistan, from 2004 to 2005, my fellow ...

Local officials said insurgents had flooded Pul-i-Khumri and Faizabad in the north, and Farah ... Khumri is a city of more than 200,000 people on the highway connecting Kabul to Afghanistan ...

The April 3 attack in Farah city, in the west of Afghanistan, was the deadliest in nearly two years: it left over 50 dead and more than 100 wounded. Yet the carnage got little media attention ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan officials say Taliban insurgents have attacked Farah city, the capital of Farah province in western Afghanistan near the border with Iran, killing and wounding dozens ...

the capital of Samangan province that sits on the main highway that connects Kabul to Afghanistan’s northern provinces. Then on Tuesday, insurgents seized three more capitals: Farah city in the ...

FARAH, Afghanistan — No one here believes the fight ... but residents and local officials say the city remains vulnerable to attack. Security forces are stretched thin across Farah province ...

A day earlier, 10 civilians were killed in Oruzgan province, in southern Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber tried to strike a military convoy. Farah city had been considered a relatively safe area.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban claimed to have ... in Farah province at a military base a few miles outside Farah city, according to numerous local officials. The fighting in Farah was part ...