Sweet factory in Afghanistan

An Afghan woman holds a child in a tuberculosis section of the main hospital in Herat on April 9, 2012. Scientists said Tuesday they had managed to kill lab-grown tuberculosis (TB) bacteria with good old Vitamin C -- an "unexpected" discovery they ...

The officers' vehicle hit the explosives planted in the road they were driving on Tuesday morning in Herat province. District Police Chief Sher Agha says the explosion was so strong that the police truck was completely destroyed in the blast in Obey ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 21 (UPI) -- Provincial officials said a police vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Herat province, Khaama Press reported. At least two police officers were injured. Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial security ...

HERAT, Afghanistan, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Six Afghan police were killed as a roadside bomb went off in Herat province 640 km west of Kabul on Tuesday, a local official said. "The ill-fated policemen were on the way to Obe district this morning when ...

12:38pm BST By HERAT, Afghanistan, May 20 (Reuters) - The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops ...

A group of Afghan migrant workers enter Afghan territory after leaving Iran at the Islam Qala border in Herat province November 5, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammad Shoib KABUL: Iranian guards shot dead 10 Afghan migrants illegally trying to cross the border ...

SHINDAND AIR BASE, Afghanistan At this airfield in western Afghanistan's Herat province, there is a stark reminder of the Soviets? occupation during the 1980s the Shindand boneyard. The "boneyard" consists of scraps of aircraft that the Soviets left ...

Afghan university students participate in a protest on the border dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Herat province, Afghanistan, May 8, 2013. Hundreds of Afghan university students staged a peaceful protest against Pakistan in Herat ...