The United States has tried to persuade the Afghan government let it destroy poppy production with an herbicide. Poppies are used in the production of opium, and most of the ...

At least 15 school girls in Kandahar, Afghanistan, were sprayed with acid in November 2008 in an attack outside a local high school. Two attackers sprayed the girls with a ...

Afghan Idol is the Afghanistan version of the "Idol" television shows that span the globe. The 2008 season has brought controversy in the name of Lima Sahar. She is not ...

Scores Killed in Afghan Battle: U.S. led coalition forces are reporting to have killed over 170 Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, with a combined air and ground assault. Only ...

The Afghan Whigs were a Cincinnati-based alternative rock band of the 1990s led by frontman Greg Dulli. After releasing their first album independently, the Whigs signed with small Seattle ...

The Afghan National Air Corps, once fostered by the Soviet Union, was all but destroyed in 2001, at the beginning of the current Afghanistan War.FOX News: U.S. Resurrects ...

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid took credit for a September 13, 2008, roadside bomb attack in Logar province, Afghanistan, nine miles from the capital of Kabul. The bomb killed the provincial ...

Mehboba Ahdyar is an athlete from Afghanistan. She is expected to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the women's 1,500 and 3,000 meter events ...