The Afghan government recently announced that its forces had withdrawn from the Bala Murghab district center in the remote Afghan province of Badghis and ceded it to the Taliban. Most Americans have ...

DAGGER 22: U.S. MARINE CORPS SPECIAL OPERATIONS IN BALA MURGHAB, AFGHANISTAN By Michael Golembesky St. Martin’s Press, $26.99, 314 pages Michael Golembesky was one of those idealistic young Americans ...

HERAT, Afghanistan, April 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Taliban fighters stormed a district in Afghanistan's western Badghis province, with both Afghan government forces and the insurgent group suffering ...

PIKE NATIONAL FOREST, Colorado — It's a rare individual who can, in one breath, wax poetic about his bar band's adaptation of Pink Floyd's early psychedelia and, in the very next, deconstruct his ...

A sign above the entrance to the local highways department office in the Pamirs town of Murghab carries the slogan: “Roads Draw Hearts Closer.” In this distant and isolated corner of Tajikistan, the ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov surprised many at a recent press conference in Bishkek by proposing a land swap with Tajikistan to help resolve a long-standing border dispute. But it was an offer that ...

A good off-road vehicle in Murghab, the largest settlement in the highlands of Tajikistan’s easternmost district, is a lifeline in more ways than one. For starters, it’s a taxi. “My family contributed ...

Over the course of several grueling days in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, Airman 1st Class Benjamin Hutchins fought through hell, first to try to rescue his fellow service members, and then to take out ...

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 50 members of the Afghan security forces have surrendered to the Taliban in a fight for control of Afghanistan's western province of Badghis that has created heavy ...

Staff Sgt. William S. Ricketts died at Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small-arms fire, the military said. A Fort Bragg-based soldier died Saturday ...

Murghab [Tajikistan], February 12 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on Richter scale jolted Tajikistan on Friday night, United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake struck at the depth ...