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IS Claims Attack On Iraq Embassy In Kabul
The Islamic State group claimed it had attacked the Iraqi embassy in Kabul Monday, as a series of explosions and the...
Kabul Attack: Gun Battle and Suicide Bombing In Afghan Capital
Afghan security forces are battling gunmen following a suicide attack outside the Iraqi embassy in the capital, Kabul....
War-Torn Kabul Pulls Down Concrete Blast Walls
The blast walls that cut through Kabul like ramparts are being pulled down, part of a counter-intuitive makeover by...
26 Afghan Soldiers Killed In Taliban Attack On Kandahar Base
At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar...
Violence Against Afghan Journalists Soars
At least 10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the first half of 2017, a 35 percent surge from last year, a...
At Least 24 Killed In Kabul Car Bombing
At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in...
At Least 8 Killed In Kabul Car Bombing
At least eight people have been killed and ten wounded after a car bomb rocked western Kabul on Monday, an official...
Afghanistan’s Shiites Mark Anniversary of Deadly Attack
Silently, the figures climb the hill in a dusty breeze to reach the gravestones of their loved ones. The site west of...
70 Villagers Kidnapped In Afghanistan, At Least 7 Killed
Seventy Afghans were abducted Friday from their village along the main highway in the south of the country, and at...
MSF Reopens Kunduz Facility After Deadly US Hospital Bombing
Medecins Sans Frontiers in Afghanistan on Saturday reopened a small medical clinic in northern Kunduz province where...
Pentagon Blocks Some Pakistan Military Payments
The US Defense Department has withheld $50 million in Pakistan military payments after Pentagon chief Jim Mattis...
Afghan Civilian Deaths Hit New High
The people of war-torn Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of the grinding conflict with civilian deaths at their...
Afghan Civilian Deaths Hit New High In 2017
Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit a new high in the first half of 2017 with 1,662 killed and more than 3,500 injured,...
Dizzying Rise of Afghan Cricket
The manicured emerald pitch at Lord's in London, where Afghanistan played for the first time ever Tuesday, is a world...
Afghanistan Enacts Law To Control Cyberspace
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by...
Afghan Cycling Sisters Take Refuge In Home of ‘Grand Boucle’
With discreet black scarves tucked beneath their helmets, Afghan refugees Zahra and Masomah Alizada hurtle down...
Kabul Rocket Kills Woman and Child
A woman and child were killed Wednesday when a rocket struck their house in Kabul, already traumatised by a series of...
McCain Calls For Pakistani ‘cooperation’ Against Extremists
US Senator John McCain visited Kabul Tuesday and warned neighbouring Pakistan that Washington was counting on its...
Afghan Subculture of Child Sex Slavery
AFP has traced three former victims of "bacha bazi", or the sexual exploitation of boys, whose testimonies lay bare one...