Khan Agha has endured years of violence in Kunduz, but it was the Taliban's attack on the strategic city in northeastern Afghanistan, as the government and insurgents were preparing for historic peace talks,

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – By switching from studying business management to training as a nurse, 19-year-old Anita Taraky has placed a bet on the future of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar _ that once foreign troops are gone, private-sector jobs ...

Afghanistan’s Kabul was rocked by explosions overnight on Thursday in an attack that has been blamed on Pakistan as tensions continue to deepen between the nations. What was notable is that the attacks come at a time when Afghanistan’s Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is on his maiden visit to India as part of the first high-level diplomatic talks between New Delhi and Kabul since the Taliban assumed power in 2021.

The United States launched air strikes against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, U.S. officials said on Monday, after a large-scale offensive saw insurgents take over military bases in the region and close in on a key provincial capital.

On a quiet afternoon in the neighbourhoods of Lajpat Nagar and Bhogal, Delhi's Afghan heartland hums with everyday life. The aroma of kabul.

The Afghan national accused of an Election Day terrorist plot reportedly worked for the CIA before coming to the United States in 2021. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, is accused of conspiring to conduct an attack in the United States on Election Day on behalf of ...

An Afghan police officer who killed two American military advisers in 2012 is released early from his 20-year sentence. By David Zucchino and Najim Rahim With peace talks on hold, the Taliban have stepped up attacks, and Afghans fear that a bitterly ...

Self-immolation of desperate young women on the rise. HERAT, Afghanistan Dec. 13, 2012— -- Laying in a hospital bed, 21-year old Wahida longs for the one thing she knows she'll never have: Her old life back. Quiet and soft spoken, she doesn't move ...