Afghanistan's Hidden Landmine Threat
Scarred by decades of chaotic warfare, Afghanistan's pockmarked terrain conceals up to 10 million landmines, mainly left behind from the Soviet-Afghan war. Military.com looks at the most commonly found mines that may threaten U.S. forces on the ground.

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Fresh fighting in eastern Afghanistan
Details are emerging about fresh fighting in eastern Afghanistan, an area torn by factional rivalries among its ethnic Pashtuns.

Afghan Camps Victims Of Their Own Success
A vast camp of mud huts stretching along a valley, Maslakh is a dusty crucible of Afghanistan's misery: tens of thousands of hungry, homeless, desperately poor people driven off their land by drought and war.