War in Afghanistan
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...
Afghan Police Search For Villagers After Mass Kidnapping
Afghan police on Sunday launched a search for some 30 villagers still missing two days after a mass kidnapping blamed...
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...
‘Happy’ Afghan Girls Compete At Robotics Meet After US Visa Woes
Huddled around a small table in the halls of a cavernous Washington concert hall, a group of Afghan teenage girls tweak...
Afghan Forces Retake District In Helmand From Taliban
Afghan security forces supported by US air power have retaken the center of volatile Nawa district from the Taliban in...
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,...
‘Taliban’ Suicide Bomber Kills Two In NW Pakistan
A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Pakistan's northwest on...
Afghan Girls Robotics Team Land In US After Visa U-Turn
A team of Afghan girls who were earlier denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition landed in the United...
Trump Supported Us, Say Afghan Girls After Robotics Visa U-Turn
A team of Afghan girls who had been denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition spoke of Donald Trump's...
Afghan Girl Roboticists Granted US Visas
A group of Afghan school girls taking part in a robotics competition in the US have been granted visas to attend it,...
Afghan Girl Roboticists Granted US Visas
A group of Afghan school girls taking part in a robotics competition in the US have been granted visas to attend it,...
In Reversal, Afghan Girls Get US Visas To Attend Robotics Competition
A team of Afghan girls who had been denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition are now allowed to come,...
Gunmen Kidnap Afghan Bus Passengers, Killing At Least Seven
Afghan authorities on Wednesday recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of seven passengers kidnapped by gunmen in the...