In the distance, he could see white snow-capped mountains, greenery and blossoming trees spread across Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley. It was “one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to ...

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 ...

In October, part of their unit was sent to Bagram Airfield to support Operation Mountain Resolve in northeastern Afghanistan. Though the war was just two years old in 2003, the Pennsylvania Guard ...

What happened to the hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters who survived U.S. airstrikes in the mountains of Afghanistan? In this 2002 documentary from Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith, FRONTLINE followed ...

How many caves are there? Thousands. Afghanistan's rugged terrain is honeycombed with natural caverns and man-made tunnels. The Hindu Kush mountains are pocked with caves scooped out of limestone ...

But last spring they returned, making their way to a safe house in the mountains of northern Afghanistan. “We must stand up and defend our freedom, even in front of anything,” one of the men ...

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 ...

Afghanistan’s capital had always bustled with commuters at this early hour. Now it was nearly deserted. Storefronts were shuttered. Only the bearded young men from the mountains, with their big ...

Afghanistan has a history of powerful earthquakes, and the Hindu Kush Mountain range is a geologically active area where ...

In Afghanistan, where much of the coal is mined by hand, every descent into the bowels of this mountain is a gamble. A dozen workers were killed in January, after one of the mines collapsed due to ...