Thousands of Afghan migrants deported from Iran are facing extreme heat, lack of shelter, food, and water at the Islam Qala ...

Mirror photographer Phil Coburn was embedded with 52 Brigade BRF in Afghanistan in the 2007 re-taking of Musa Qala from the Taliban - JD Vance's 'random country' comments have not gone down well ...

In 2006, when Danish and British troops were deployed to Musa Qala in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, the mission was clear. They were to defend their allies, the local police forces ...

Like much of the news from Afghanistan, it is cyclical: Musa Qala “fell” to the Taliban in August last year, but was then recaptured. This latest “news” means that the Taliban is now reported to ...

Afghanistan's previous government attempted to limit such schools, fearing they were incubators for extremism. In Musa Qala, a mother of three cried about the opportunities being lost.

In Musa Qala -- a dusty farming outpost with a shipping container bazaar staffed by child shopkeepers -- the deprivation is visible. The local economy seems to barely subsist on motorcycle repairs, ...

A street in Musa Qala. For some time, the land in Musa Qala was unclaimed, undocumented and written off as unfarmable, except by a few farmers such as Mr. Salam.

Then, within months the Taliban attacked and reoccupied Musa Qala. Then in late 2007 the British led yet another attack and forced a Taliban retreat, until they returned again.

Shocked but not surprised - they've been running towns like Sangin and Musa Qala in the south of the country since 2017, after all, where I have covered British soldiers fighting and dying on many ...

President Joe Biden’s promise to remove US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 is his effort – each of the last four presidents has had one – to end America’s longest war.

On Monday, 30-year-old Musa Qala resident Mohammad Salim carried bodies of cousins and relatives to a burial ground from a house decorated for his sister-in-law's wedding.