KABUL, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Once a tourist attraction, the Salang Pass Tunnel, which links Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul with the northern provinces, is going to lose its beauty as the dirty ...

Afghanistan: The incident happened late on Saturday in the province of Parwan, north of Kabul, leaving travellers on both sides of the mountainous pass stranded. An oil tanker overturned and caught ...

KABUL (Reuters) - An accident in the landmark Salang alpine tunnel that connects Afghanistan's capital to its north killed at least 12 people and injured dozens, authorities said on Sunday.

SALANG, Afghanistan—It had already taken Abdul Wali all morning to make the trip, hauling fuel some 200 miles from the border of Uzbekistan along a potholed highway. But the worst part of his journey ...

Any trip out of Kabul involves at least some white-knuckling. Head south and you may very well run into insurgents; go north or east and, at the sight of a paved road not clogged with traffic, you'll ...

At least 19 people have been killed and dozens injured in a fire inside a road tunnel in Afghanistan, local officials say. An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in the Salang Tunnel - which links ...

Rescuers are continuing to dig through snow in Afghanistan to reach hundreds of people trapped in their vehicles by avalanches in the Salang Pass. Government officials say at least 165 bodies have ...

Afghan emergency teams have recovered more than 165 bodies from a mountain pass hit by a series of major avalanches. 10 February 2010 • 4:31pm Afghan emergency teams have recovered more than 165 ...

Afghanistan: At least eight fighters from a resistance movement were killed after the Taliban carried out a raid on a rebel hideout in northern Afghanistan. The Defence Ministry stated that the 313 ...

The Salang pass, one of the highest mountain highways in the world at around 3,650 metres (12,000 feet) was built by Soviet-era specialists in the 50s and includes a 2.6-kilometre tunnel. CHARIKAR: An ...

An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan's high-altitude Salang pass, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, officials said on Sunday. The incident happened late on Saturday in the ...