JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales spent the evening on his remote outpost in southern Afghanistan with fellow soldiers, watching a movie about revenge killings, sharing ...

ABI BARIK, Afghanistan -- Afghan rescuers and volunteers armed with shovels and little more than bare hands dug through the mud Saturday after a landslide swept through a village the day before, ...

A trip to Afghan Village Cuisine is something like visiting an Afghan home, where the meal is how-mom-made-it authentic dishes, like Kabuli pulao, eggplant curry, naan bread and carrot balls for ...

Sangmamat remembers his favorite chore at his old house: "I like to bring the sheep to the pasture," he says. It's been a year since the 7-year-old has been able to do that. Sangmamat is from ...

Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush ...

Dewey Yopp, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, was sent to Afghanistan in 2002 to train up a new Afghan army during the early days of the war in Afghanistan. He met Amir, his then-18-year-old ...

Back in October, the military apparently wiped an Afghan village off the face of the Earth because it was too far gone to save. The story was reported this week. Taliban had run the civilians out of ...