Abdul Jabbar wants to die. Squatting beside his wife’s unconscious body, his 12 children and grandchildren huddled around him in a tiny, open tent of sticks and stitched sacks, the 65-year-old brushes ...

With Security, Business Booms In Mazar-e Sharif by Charles Recknagel MAZAR-E SHARIF -- As the heat of the day subsides at dark, hundreds of families gather in a large amusement park on the outskirts ...

The inaugural flight reportedly landed in Mazar-i-Sharif with 120 passengers from Iran. A US-blacklisted Iranian carrier, Meraj Airlines, has begun operating commercial flights to Afghanistan, ...

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring about 150, provincial authorities said on Monday. The U.S.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has killed at least 20 people, striking northern Afghanistan near the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The Ministry of Public Health reported the death toll on Monday, raising the ...

Twice in the past four years, Northern Alliance commander Rashid Dostum has had to flee Mazar-i-Sharif, the city he once ruled. Once he had to bribe his own men to let him out of town before the ...

Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance is on the offensive and the United States seems to have responded to the group’s call for bombing Taliban front lines to clear the way for an advance. U.S. planes hit ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Nov. 11 -- Women walked in the streets without veils for the first time in more than two years in Mazar-e Sharif today as the city in northern Afghanistan began to emerge from ...

BERLIN, July 6 (Reuters) - Germany has closed its consulate general in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan in the course of the international military withdrawal, a diplomat said on Tuesday. The ...

A powerful earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, near the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. It comes months after thousands of people died in deadly quakes in the country's east.A powerful mangitude-6.3 ...