Huge death tolls that would once have made headlines are becoming commonplace in Afghanistan, as the Taliban and other militant groups flex their muscles daily against a US-backed military ...

Usually found in the desert areas of the Middle East, Mexico and the Southwestern U.S., the camel spider is nonvenomous and ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...

At a bazaar deep in the desert that serves as the central node of Afghanistan's meth trade, there are huge mounds of the plant on sale, on a scale not previously seen before. Previously ...

Torture and The Desert Spiders have released a video for their new song "The Tooth, The Gap and The Filling". The video was edited by Clara Cicely and shot by the band and Jana Lukavecki. The song was ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Best Classic Spider Solitaire brings the popular spider version game of the solitaire card game to the palm of your hand. As with every Solitaire game it is your objective to sort cards onto piles.

the sight of mortar shells being fired uselessly into the desert, one after another, was demoralizing,” he writes. Sadat holding his memoir. (Hope Hodge Seck) The Afghanistan United Front ...

The Global Story. Life as a woman under Taliban rule. Audio, 25 minutesThe Global Story Life as a woman under Taliban rule ...

Afghanistan recently suspended its house-to-house polio vaccination efforts. Whether or not vaccinations will resume is uncertain. This has significant implications, because polio remains a threat ...

Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, recently declared he will defeat the Taliban “no matter the odds.” For Massoud to mount a military threat to the ...