JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- Its name means "black dust," but Tora Bora's reputation is solid rock: a mountain fortress so impregnable that a decade of Soviet bombing and missile fire was unable to ...

SURMAD, Afghanistan -- Two months ago, Arab and Chechen fighters showed up at the village of Shah-e-Kot and warned residents to leave or risk being caught up in fighting. Village elders accepted the ...

Russia s humiliation in Afghanistan may well have hastened the collapse of the Soviet system, but at a huge cost to Afghanistan itself. Even in the mid eighties Soviet policy makers were cautioning ...

MACH, Pakistan, November 7 (UNHCR) - Tall and distinguished-looking in a turban and grey beard, Rahim Udin was trying to keep a straight face while his friends and relatives teased him as he posed for ...