As the sun rises over Kabul’s parched mountains, a family’s daily struggle to find water – and to make it last – is about to ...

Mercy Corps says up to 80 per cent of Kabul’s groundwater is polluted due to sewage and waste. Residents report frequent ...

Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, is facing a severe crisis that could see it become the first modern capital in the world to run out of water, according to a report by Mercy Corps. Years of ...

A recent research study predicts that Kabul is on the way to becoming the first capital city in modern history, on the verge ...

According to reports, the city’s groundwater levels have been falling rapidly due to overuse and the impacts of climate change. According to the Mercy Corps report published in April, Kabul’s aquifers ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — By plane, motorbike ... of near-continuous conflict kept nearly all vacationers away from this landlocked country of towering mountains, deep gorges and millennia of history. The ...

Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, who had a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head, survived years in Afghanistan's rugged mountains but his last months were spent in an upscale Kabul neighbourhood ...

SALANG PASS, Afghanistan — The road that traverses this lofty mountain pass is the only direct route between Kabul and Afghanistan's northern provinces. Since the age of Alexander the Great, it ...

In Afghanistan's Panjshir Province, former police officers and soldiers scrape together a living by digging emeralds out of the frigid Hindu Kush Mountains. The gem-rich Hindu Kush Mountains flank ...