Colin McMahon

Uzbek President Islam Karimov, America's new and close ally in its campaign against terrorism, is a strict but compassionate man. Practice Islam in a manner Karimov deems misguided and go...

The Afghans displaced from Mazar-e Sharif more than three years ago called it treachery when anti-Taliban commanders jumped sides and helped the Taliban capture northern Afghanistan's largest city. Their outrage,...

If the Northern Alliance opposition fighters in Afghanistan are to overthrow, with U.S. help, the ruling Taliban, a controversial Uzbek warlord named Abdul Rashid Dostum is expected to play a...

With U.S. warplanes unleashing their most punishing bombing raids in four days on the Taliban's front lines, a top Pentagon official conceded Wednesday that Afghan resistance is more formidable than...

Dozens of American warplanes pressed their attacks Monday on front-line positions of the Taliban army in northern Afghanistan, trying to clear the way for opposition rebel forces to move against...

Only a few days ago the fierce gusts that regularly swirl up from Afghanistan, clouding the streets and air here with a gritty dust, suddenly vanished. For Tajiks, that's the...

Hopes for a potentially decisive ground victory against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government suffered an apparent setback Wednesday as Taliban forces held off rebels in the battle for the strategically important...

The Pentagon unleashed its air power on Kabul and other Afghanistan cities Wednesday, striking the capital with what witnesses described as the fiercest attack since bombing began Sunday. Paving the...