The toll in Charikar was expected to rise as rescue workers sift through the wreckage of dozens of destroyed homes. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fahim Abed KABUL, Afghanistan — When the heavy ...

Villagers retrieve belongings from the debris of their homes after a flash flood hit the area at Sayrah-e-Hopiyan in Charikar, Parwan province, Afghanistan, August 26, 2020.

Floods in northern and eastern Afghanistan are common this time of year. But the destruction in Charikar, where side streets were transformed into pressurized tributaries that tore through much of ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 10 -- Afghan opposition forces swept across wide swaths of northern Afghanistan today, capitalizing on their capture of the crossroads city of Mazar-e Sharif on Friday ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — They die in assaults on lonely mountain checkpoints and in group beheadings captured on hand-held video cameras. They are engulfed by flaming car bombs and are shot at ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan (Feb. 27, 2017) - United States military services hold on to their traditions and pass them to new service members to teach history and help install pride in their organization.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban soldiers were ruthlessly efficient in their destruction of the Parwan Cinema, except for the fragments of fantasies they left scattered on the projection room ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — The death toll from two days of heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan rose to at least 150 on Thursday, with scores more injured as rescue crews searched for ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has pledged an urgent aid and recovery package to the residents of Parwan Province, which has been hit by heavy flooding in recent days.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Police have discovered a dozen anti-personnel mines and some ammunition in eastern Afghanistan's Parwan province, said a statement of provincial police ...

The Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence released Sangar on December 19 in Charikar, prompting the Afghanistan Journalist Center (AFJC), a local media watchdog, ...