KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. Department of State has facilitated the evacuation of four U.S. citizens across one of Afghanistan's land borders -- the first Americans to leave the country with help ...

An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesperson said Monday. The mine, which the children found near ...

From a western observation post at the sprawling U.S. military headquarters, the boom was audible and immediately recognizable. U.S. soldiers who guard the Bagram Air Base said they instantly knew a ...

An American woman went viral last summer when she desperately tried to get shelter animals out of Afghanistan as U.S. troops were evacuating. She wasn't successful before the Taliban took over the ...

Former Taliban fighters are tracking down their own bombs and helping to remove them from Afghanistan’s roadsides. Ex-Taliban members are working with local police and the Scottish Dumfriesshire-based ...

PUL-I-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, September 14 (UNHCR) - A government land-allocation scheme in Afghanistan has distributed property to thousands of landless Afghans who have repatriated to northern and ...

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KABUL, Afghanistan, November 19 (UNHCR) - Land and shelter are among the biggest problems facing Afghan refugees returning home after decades in exile. Many never owned land in this mountainous ...

The stranger escorted the three girls into a dark, cold apartment in a country they only knew through television shows. For 16-year-old Baran, her 31-year-old sister, and their 4-year-old niece, it ...