Hindu Kush

Many have charged that President Barack Obama’s decision to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan 10 months from now is hampering our war effort. But…

The sole survivor of the 10-man medical aid mission murdered by militants in Afghanistan said one of the killers had hitched a ride with the team…

KABUL Afghanistan — An Afghan passenger plane carrying 44 people, including six foreigners, crashed Monday in a mountainous northern region where…

Artwork from India's Punjab state decorates the Ray family home. A Johann Sebastian Bach statue sits on a piano. But in the basement - cluttered with…

For as long as anyone can remember, there was noneed for paper money in this remote corner of the Hindu Kush. Thecommon currency was what grew in…

Two earthquakes shook eastern Afghanistan early Friday, collapsing mud-brick homes on top of villagers while they slept and killing at least 21…

In an interview with Teheran Times two weeks ago, Norman Finklestein, the notorious Hizbullah and Hamas supporter and all-purpose anti-Semite, called…

A moderate earthquake jolted a broad stretch of northwest Pakistan and the Kashmir region on Monday morning, according to officials. There were no…

The Purim story, which takes place at the very end of the Babylonian Exile, has a good historical core: Ahasuerus is Xerxes I - in Persian…

Reports that an al-Qaida cell in Lebanon fired Katyusha rockets on northern Israel would not be the first sign that Osama bin Laden's organization is…

A strong earthquake early Tuesday struck remote northeastern Afghanistan and shook neighboring Pakistan, the scene of a devastating quake two months…