Situated over an impressive 800-kilometer span, the Hindu Kush mountain range winds through the heart of Afghanistan, reaching into Northern Pakistan and Tajikistan. This geological marvel ...

This girl helps out her family by running errands, carrying a pan of cheese, in her remote Afghan village just across the ...

An earthquake of 42 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday the National Center for Seismology stated ...

With peaks up to about 7315 meters (24,000 feet), the Hindu Kush forms the spine of the country, trending southwestward from the Pamir Knot to the central Afghan province of Bamian. Subsidiary ranges ...

A family flees across the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan on their way to become refugees in Pakistan (1988) Two young Afghan fighters share a joke during a lull in fighting in fierce ...

One of its least visited corners, the rugged Wakhan corridor, is an Afghanistan as few outsiders imagine it: shielded from violence by the Hindu Kush mountain range, locked in a more idyllic time ...

Afghanistan has been reeling from an economic ... The country is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, as it lies near the junction of the Eurasian and ...

In his book titled “Afuganisutan no Shinryojo kara” (From a clinic in Afghanistan), Nakamura documented how nature irrigated farmlands in summer with melted snow from the Hindu Kush mountain ...

Before 2022, Afghanistan was by far the most important supplier of heroin to Europe, with around 80% coming from the Hindu Kush. If this heroin were to fail to materialize, it could have dramatic ...