JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Too bad you can't pass on going through mountain pass in Afghanistan. Mountain passes like the one between Kabul and Jalalabad are where some of the greatest armies in the ...

The highest mountain in war-torn Afghanistan was recently reopened to climbers. The event was celebrated in grand fashion with an expedition to the summit. The expedition to the summit began July ...

After 2005, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan's rugged mountains and last virgin forests in the far east but, in many cases, were then ousted by even more radical groups. Places like Barg-i ...

The winter landscape around the deep, blue mountain lakes of Band-e-Amir in ... the collapse of Afghanistan’s vestigial tourism industry might almost go unnoticed. But Band-e-Amir, about 3,000 ...

There are no paved roads linking the craggy, mineral-rich mountains of northeast Afghanistan’s Konar and Nurestan provinces to the outside world, while abundant and more accessible reserves are ...

Eastern Afghanistan’s province of Nuristan is a green oasis in a country largely in the grip of desertification. The area is replete with tree-covered mountains and clear rivers that wind ...

Afghanistan’s five highest magnitude earthquakes (7.4 to 7.8 magnitude) have occurred along the Hindu Kush mountain range in the country’s north-east region. The epicentre of the June 21 ...

The highest mountain in war-torn Afghanistan was recently reopened to climbers. The event was celebrated in grand fashion — with an expedition to the summit. Mount Noshaq had been closed to the ...