KABUL, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Police have thwarted attempts to smuggle 500 sheep from northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province to neighboring Tajikistan, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah ...

In faction-torn Afghanistan, children (such as 12-year ... local animals now known even among Afghans as Marco Polo sheep "whose horns are [a] good six palms in length." Denis Belliveau ...