Afghanistan

A Panjshir provincial official has confirmed that a helicopter was damaged in the province, although authorities have not yet provided details about the circumstances...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Thursday that Taliban authorities detained or arrested at least 52 women and one girl in...

Three Afghan men have been sentenced to a combined 33 years in custody for raping a 17-year-old girl in Bristol, England, after grooming her...

Afghanistan’s capital is facing a deepening water crisis, with groundwater levels falling sharply and nearly half of the city’s boreholes already dry, raising fears...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for concrete and verifiable action against terrorist groups that Islamabad says are operating from Afghanistan territory, during...

Uzbekistan’s State Security Service (SSS) says authorities have intercepted 48.5 kilograms of hashish and opium allegedly being smuggled from Afghanistan into the country through...

France has opened technical discussions with the Taliban to facilitate the return of Afghan nationals living in the country without legal status, particularly those...

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold a joint conference on security issues in Afghanistan and Central Asia in Moscow on October 15–16,...

Rana Sanaullah, adviser to Pakistan’s prime minister on political affairs, has accused the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of putting its political interests above national...

Taliban Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Attaullah Omari has travelled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to attend a global technical forum on food security and...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the failure of Afghanistan and Pakistan to agree on a joint statement at the eighth Moscow Format consultations...

Ariana Afghan Airlines has ended a nearly 15-year agreement with Pakistan-based Zapways, which had managed the airline’s ticketing, operational systems and website, and has...

An explosion near the police headquarters in Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, injured two civilians on Wednesday morning, according to the...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has allocated $18 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support...

Authorities in Afghanistan’s western Herat province have banned the sale and public flying of kites, according to a statement. The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation...