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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring about 150, provincial authorities said on Monday. The U.S.

Northern Alliance forces are “knocking on the door” of the strategic Northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif and could take the city within days, a senior Northern Alliance official said today.

Among the opposition soldiers who seized Mazar-e-Sharif were some 2,500 Hazaras, a Shiite group whose members were massacred by the Taliban when they took the city three years ago. "Hazaras have been ...

The rebel seizure of the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif will open a vital land route that international relief agencies could use to dramatically step up delivery of food to starving Afghans, ...

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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 ...