The future of Afghanistan begins at the end of next year, after U.S. combat troops depart and Afghan forces take over for keeps. After spending more than a half-trillion dollars, it’s difficult ...

Two hospitals being built in Afghanistan through U.S. reconstruction aid are financially unsustainable and cost five times as much as the ones they are replacing, U.S. inspectors have found. The same ...

KABUL, March 5 (Reuters) - An ambitious U.S.-funded project to build hospitals in Afghanistan has run into the ground, with the largest hospital ever planned in the country unlikely to open in full, U ...

KABUL (WLS) -- John Gabel and his father, Gary, were visiting Dr. Jerry Umanos at an Afghanistan hospital when a security guard opened fire killing the three of them. The Gabels, both of Palatine, ...

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Almost 80 girls, all students at elementary schools in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province, were poisoned over the weekend in two separate incidents, according to a statement from the regional governor's ...

Pediatrician “felt called” to leave Chicago’s Lawndale Christian Health Center for Kabul. The attack occurred at the CURE International Hospital, a Christian hospital specializing in pediatrics and ...

* Camp hospital deals with 30 casualties * Wounded taken to Kabul and Britain By Peter Graff CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan, July 12 (Reuters) - More than 30 wounded British soldiers were flown into Camp ...

The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan at the weekend rose sharply to more than 2,200 on Thursday, according to a new toll, making it the deadliest in decades to ...

Healthcare workers, speaking to a United Nations mission in the war-ravaged country, have described ‘devastating’ incidents ...

(Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is likely to end the financial running of 25 Afghan hospitals by the end of August due to funding constraints, a spokesperson told ...

Kabul:Ten civilians were killed and a dozen more were wounded late Friday in a Pakistani strike on a border province in western Afghanistan, an official at the Paktika provincial hospital said. "In ...