War in Afghanistan
Afghanistan: IS Gunmen Dressed As Medics Kill 30 At Kabul Military Hospital
More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul,...
Gunmen Dressed As Doctors Attack Kabul Hospital
Explosions and gunfire rattled Kabul's diplomatic district Wednesday when insurgents dressed as doctors stormed...
Blast, Gunfire Hit Kabul Military Hospital
An explosion and gunfire rattled Kabul's diplomatic district on Wednesday as insurgents attacked Afghanistan's largest...
Afghanistan Launches Centre To Protect Women Journalists
Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday launched a centre to protect women journalists in Afghanistan, the second most...
Taliban Claim Attacks In Afghan Capital, At Least 15 Dead
Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul on Wednesday, as...
Simultaneous Taliban Attacks Kill At Least 16 In Kabul
Two attacks struck the Afghan capital at almost the same time on Wednesday Almost simultaneous attacks in Kabul have...
Blasts, Gunfire Rock Afghan Capital
Explosions and gunfire echoed through Kabul in two separate Taliban assaults on security buildings Wednesday, officials...
Eleven Afghan Police Killed In Insider Attack
An Afghan policeman linked to the Taliban shot dead 11 of his colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of...
The Afghan Practice of Child Sex Slavery
Afghanistan is set to criminalise the practice of "bacha bazi" -- the sexual exploitation of boys -- with a slew of...
Pentagon Chief Readies Afghanistan Proposals For Trump
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday said he is compiling an assessment for President Donald Trump to weigh on...
Roadside Bomb Kills 12 Afghans Including Children, UN Says
The UN has condemned the killing of 12 Afghans, including eight children returning from school, by a roadside bomb in...
UAE Envoy To Kabul Dies of Wounds From January Bombing
The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Afghanistan has died of wounds sustained in a January 10 bombing in Kandahar...
UN Voices Concern Over Afghan Civilian Deaths In Helmand
The UN voiced "grave concern" Sunday over the killing of at least 25 civilians in the escalating conflict in the...
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Six In Afghanistan’s Helmand
At least six people were killed Saturday when a Taliban bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into Afghan soldiers who...
Afghan Military Would Support More Foreign Troops, Official Says
The Afghan Defense Ministry welcomed on Friday suggestions by the commander of international forces in Afghanistan that...
United Arab Emirates Diplomats Killed In Afghan Attack
Five officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been killed in a bomb attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan,...
Twin Suicide Blasts Rock Afghanistan’s Capital Kabul
Afghan policemen at the site of the suicide bomb attack in Kabul More than 20 people have been killed in twin suicide...
Taliban ‘kill Woman Who Divorced Husband and Remarried’
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a woman who divorced her husband and remarried, officials say. The...
Nato Chief Warns Against Going It Alone
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has warned US President-elect Donald Trump that "going it alone" is not an...