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 ...

JABAL SARAJ, Afghanistan, Nov. 8 -- The opposition Northern Alliance said today that it gained ground in its battle to capture the key northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, and a senior alliance official ...

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 ...

File photo of people visiting the historic Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, on April 21, 2017. (Xinhua/Hakim Alipoor/IANS photo) NEW DELHI – As the situation in Afghanistan continued to ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1133264/133264" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Robert ...

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 ...

A bomb blast at a journalism awards ceremony in the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif has killed three people and left 13 wounded, Afghan officials said. Some of the wounded were reportedly journalists ...

Two weeks after fleeing her home to escape clashes between government and opposition forces, 24-year-old Maryam* huddles in the shade of a makeshift shelter in Nawabad Farabi-ha camp on the outskirts ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 1,000 people, including Americans, have been stuck in Afghanistan for days awaiting clearance for their charter flights to leave, an organizer told Reuters, blaming the ...

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 ...