SALANG PASS, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan emergency teams have recovered more than 150 bodies from a northern mountain pass hit by a series ...
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan is ready to feed thousands if they flee a major assault by NATO troops, but officials hope ...
Afghan people crowd inside a restaurant as they wait for transportation after an avalanche struck following heavy snow in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's ...
An unidentified Afghan man mourns near the dead body of an avalanche victim at a hospital in Charikar, some 50 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least ...
U.S. Army Pfc. Colin Wells from Los Angeles, Calif., of the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, takes finger prints of an Afghan driver at a checkpoint, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. ...
NATO says Afghan forces to play their biggest role of the war in upcoming operation in south Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an upcoming offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any ...
This is a family handout photo of 19-year-old Spc Marc Decoteau of Waterville Valley, N.H. The Department of Defense announced Decoteau died of injuries sustained in Wardak province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Decoteau Family) Copyright 2010 AP News
US troops who have died while serving in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa Marine Cpl. Jamie R. Lowe Jamie R. Lowe's parents wanted their son's funeral to be upbeat and patriotic, just like he was, so they asked people to show ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The death of two British soldiers, reported on Monday, means that as many British troops have been killed in Afghanistan as during the war to recapture the Falklands Islands from Argentina 28 years ago. The 1982 conflict turned around ...
Wild West lore lightens US troops' mood at Afghan base surrounded by harsh desert, insurgency Welcome to the O.K. Corral. Past the concrete slabs and guards in heavy combat gear, a wooden board at the entrance to an allied military base in ...
FIDDLER'S GREEN BASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Decades ago development experts from Washington built the town of Marjah in southern Afghanistan in order to populate a desert they had helped irrigate with a network of U.S.-built canals. Marjah has since become a breeding ...
A U.S. soldier enters a room with a sign that refers to Big Nose Kate, a Wild West figure, at Tombstone base in Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The gunslinger theme at the base is designed to lighten the ...
