While exploring Afghanistan, I never expected to find myself caught in the middle of a Taliban parade in Mazar-e-Sharif. The ...

Associated Press WriterKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Opposition forces claimed Friday they broke though Taliban defenses around Mazar-e-Sharif and entered the key northern city. The report could not ...

This Afghanistan travel vlog took an unexpected turn when I found myself caught in a Taliban parade in Mazar-e-Sharif on the ...

In Kabul, Afghanistan s ruling Taliban militia confirmed losing Mazar-e-Sharif and said their forces withdrew rather than risk the destruction of the city of about 200,000. We did not want to risk our ...

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 ...

JABAL SARAJ, Afghanistan -- U.S. jets struck Taliban targets across northern Afghanistan on Thursday and fierce fighting was reported around the Taliban-held city of Mazar-e-Sharif, cornerstone of the ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Oct. 22 -- Afghan opposition forces reported "furious battles" with Taliban troops in northern Afghanistan today, but the rebels are far from Mazar-e Sharif and an advance on the ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities recently pulled down a monument depicting a 15th-century Uzbek poet -- only to promise two days later to rebuild it, a rapid U-turn that may signal a pragmatic side ...