PANJSHIR, Afghanistan – On a recent sunny morning in northern Afghanistan, excited children and bemused policemen lined the banks of a fast-flowing river to watch a group of Europeans in multicolored ...

PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — Done with their visit to one of the remote villages along the river that sprints down through this valley, four members of a U.S. military reconstruction team head back ...

PANJSHIR, Afghanistan -- Countless songs and poems have been dedicated to the beauty and captivating landscape of Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Panjshir with its soaring mountains and crystal ...

Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley is the stuff of legend. It was the valley that cost the Soviet Union the Afghan war. Time after time, the Soviets were repulsed in the valley by the late mujahedin ...

Last month driving up Afghanistan’s magnificent Panjshir valley, you couldn’t help thinking if the resurgent Taliban would ever be able to break its defences, both natural and from the Tajik-dominated ...

SAFID SHIR, Afghanistan — Astride his dappled gray stallion, Mohammad Karim looked like a weathered warrior, though he wielded a grain sack instead of a carbine. Decades ago, Karim was a mujahid, a ...

Ten years ago Friday, a team of al-Qaida agents carried out an assassination that was the first step in their plan leading to the Sept. 11 attacks. In the north of Afghanistan, suicide bombers posing ...

JANGALAK, Afghanistan — Each September, thousands of people flock to this tiny village along the rushing waters of the Panjshir River like pilgrims to a holy shrine, coming to commemorate the death of ...

PANJSHIR-- On a recent sunny morning in northern Afghanistan, excited children and bemused policemen lined the banks of a fast-flowing river to watch a group of Europeans in multicolored kayaks ...