Khost province, Afghanistan, Aug. 17, 2013: Sgt. Joshua Sutherland, left, helps 2nd Lt. George Fletcher up a waterfall as Sgt ...

A Russian airplane carrying six people, which went off the radar over Afghanistan on Saturday evening, is said to have crashed in the mountains. An aircraft — suspected to be a Russian chartered ...

“The stories made me so interested in the mountains.” The mountaineering seed was planted young. Then, in November 2001, ...

There are no paved roads linking the craggy, mineral-rich mountains of northeast Afghanistan’s Konar and Nurestan provinces to the outside world, while abundant and more accessible reserves are ...

In the shadow of the Afghan mountains, a man sits in a small, windowless room. This is how he has lived for the past three years, since 2021, when U.S. troops withdrew and the Taliban reclaimed ...

How many caves are there? Thousands. Afghanistan's rugged terrain is honeycombed with natural caverns and man-made tunnels. The Hindu Kush mountains are pocked with caves scooped out of limestone ...