Hints of lives are all that remains
What happened to you, people of Rabat? You who baked wheaty nan in kitchens where iron stoves rust, punctured by shrapnel? You who dug fine irrigation canals, mending leaks with...
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Minority Afghans tell Taliban atrocities
Cupped in a pristine river valley and surrounded by peaks that seem to glow with pale fire at dawn, Du Ob would fit many people's idea of paradise. Its tidy...
Convoy blazes trail to new Afghanistan
The land mine exploded just across the first bridge, blowing a tire off a truck 40 yards ahead. The tire spun into the air and bounced down the hillside. Village...
Minority Afghans tell Taliban atrocities
Cupped in a pristine river valley and surrounded by peaks that seem to glow with pale fire at dawn, Du Ob would fit many people's idea of paradise. Its tidy...
Factions battle in Taliban’s wake
On its terrible surface, not much distinguished the battle that unfolded here Thursday morning from other recent bloodlettings in Afghanistan. Tanks rolled across parched fields, firing on a nearby mud...
U.S. says no to deals
Rebel troops surrounding Taliban forces in Kunduz tried again Monday to persuade the government troops to surrender amid heavy bombing by U.S. warplanes and reports that fighters linked to the...
Kabul beaming as TVs go back on
"Greetings viewers," declared the station manager, a spooky character wearing dark aviator glasses and a three-day growth of beard. "We are glad to have destroyed terrorism. Now we bring you...
Alliance trying to quell fears of seizing power
With much of Afghanistan wrested from the ruling Taliban regime, rebel leaders sought Thursday to allay growing fears that they were bent on monopolizing power in a post-Taliban government, promising...
Pashtuns set to flee at 1st sign of revenge
Khush Rung's living room is a sobering reminder of just how fragile peace remains in Afghanistan's ruined capital one day after rebels grasped power. Stacked against a dingy back wall...
8 aid workers go free
As Taliban forces scattered across Afghanistan on Wednesday, U.S. helicopters picked up eight foreign aid workers who had been held by the hard-line Islamic regime for preaching Christianity and flew...