SALANG PASS, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 60 people were feared dead and hundreds still trapped on a treacherous mountain pass in Afghanistan on Tuesday after a series of avalanches smashed into an alpine tunnel. Days of heavy snow triggered avalanches which hit the 2.6 km (1.6 mile) long Soviet-built Salang tunnel, the main route across the Hindu Kush ...

About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them a reason to shun the Taliban. A lack of reliable electricity is what's keeping the factories silent ...

By the crack of dawn, the Royal Canadian Dragoons' armor was in position, fanned out across a dusty vineyard for Operation Tazi to secure a key land route into Kandahar from the Taliban. It was a mission the Canadians have done countless times before in other Afghan places ...