There are still no lift facilities in the mountains where the snowboarders practice. They have to hike back up to the top ...

On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

With a new administration in the White House, refugee federal funding is frozen, meaning they had to pull the plug on some of the services they offer, including their driving program. The move is ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak used to drag themselves up the thick snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak once trudged up the steep, snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains ...

In 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's worst air disaster. In 2006, an Egyptian ferry sank in the Red Sea off the coast of ...

Ahmad Habibzi pauses to pray at the top of the halfpipe hill on a mountain at the Yabuli Ski Resort in northeastern China.

At that time, Khanzai was part of a small band of around 20 enthusiastic amateur Afghan boarders ... that enthusiasts would have to hike up mountains to ride the slopes, using techniques they ...