On any Friday, when the Afghan weekend begins, dozens of drivers gather in the Kandahar desert to charge their SUVs up steep ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tetsu Nakamura, the Japanese doctor and aid worker killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, was inspired to make the country's deserts green by the deaths of children in a clinic he ran ...

SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN -- An American flag flew over an Afghan airstrip Tuesday as more and more U.S. Marines landed in their desert foothold near the Taliban's last bastion. With the size of the force ...