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 ...

Kabul could become the first modern city to run out of water by 2030, according to a report published by the nonprofit Mercy ...

An Afghan boy pushes a wheel on the Naderkhan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, in May. As more people have crowded to Kabul, the city center has become like a buoy floating in a sea of sprawl.

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 ...

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 ...