The Salang Pass in Afghanistan, an imposing gateway through the Hindu Kush mountains, has long been a vital artery for commerce an ...

KABUL, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Once a tourist attraction, the Salang Pass Tunnel, which links Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul with the northern provinces, is going to lose its beauty as the dirty ...

SALANG, Afghanistan—It had already taken Abdul Wali all morning to make the trip, hauling fuel some 200 miles from the border of Uzbekistan along a potholed highway. But the worst part of his journey ...

An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan's high-altitude Salang pass, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, officials said on Sunday. Afghanistan: Doctors collect the bodies of victims ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KABUL (Reuters) - An accident in the landmark Salang alpine tunnel that connects Afghanistan's capital to its north killed at ...

After overthrowing the government, the Taliban are now trying to save what’s left of the roads they spent years blowing up, with none more critical than a two-mile-high pass through the Hindu Kush.

A chill wind whips across the jagged peaks. As overloaded buses, trucks and tankers struggle up the winding pass, they drive through pillared concrete galleries, designed to protect the road from ...

Any trip out of Kabul involves at least some white-knuckling. Head south and you may very well run into insurgents; go north or east and, at the sight of a paved road not clogged with traffic, you'll ...

KABUL: The Taliban militants reportedly have attacked the Salang Pass, a key tunnel that connects Kabul city with Afghanistan’s northern provinces. The militants launched the attack on northern part ...

The Salang pass, one of the highest mountain highways in the world at around 3,650 metres (12,000 feet) was built by Soviet-era specialists in the 50s and includes a 2.6-kilometre tunnel. CHARIKAR: An ...

The government said 37 people were injured after a fuel tanker caught fire, and the death toll was expected to rise. Medical workers carry the bodies of those who were killed after an oil tanker ...