At least 20 people have been killed in flash floods in central Afghanistan over the past 48 hours, with heavy rain destroying thousands of homes and damaging agricul.
GAYAN, Afghanistan - Aid began arriving on Thursday (June 23) in a remote part of Afghanistan where an earthquake killed 1,000 people, with Taliban officials saying the rescue operation was almost complete. The magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck early on Wednesday about 160 km (100 miles) southeast of Kabul, in arid mountains dotted with small settlements near the border with Pakistan..