and in most villages there is no electricity and no running water. You reach the base by a Black Hawk helicopter, which soars above the rushing rivers and isolated canyons of the Hindu Kush.

There is a beautiful scent that lingers in Afghanistan's cities ... Made famous in the West by Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, it is a fabulously remote land of high peaks and ...

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan Aca ... sea level in a valley below the Hindu Kush mountains. Because of rocky terrain, most patrols to the remote, local villages in the Deh Chopan district ...

This photograph taken on May 4, 2015, shows a villager (Left) constructing a makeshift tent for his family next to his destroyed house in the village ... beneath the Hindu Kush region and the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan --A landslide buried a village ... Badakhshan province, nestled in the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges and bordering China, is one of the most remote in the country.

The Afghan racers, most of them farm boys from nearby villages with only a few weeks ... first climb on an unnamed mountain in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush for the third annual challenge.

Hemmed in by mountains, Afghanistan has a history of strong earthquakes, many in the rugged Hindu Kush region bordering ... flattened buildings in some 20 villages in the northwest, Afghan ...

A powerful earthquake that shook Afghanistan ... five villages were destroyed. Earthquakes and seismic activity are common in this part of the world and particularly in the Hindu Kush mountains ...

In a small village located at the western end of the snow-covered Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province, Aziza Rahimi, 35, mourns the baby she lost four months ago after a ...

Qari Inam, a resident of Sooch in Jurm district, said the earthquake “shook the village ... told AFP. Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain ...