Hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in as Iran’s president on Thursday, Reuters reported. This comes as Iran’s clerical rulers face growing crises at home...
Herat officials said Thursday morning that the security forces in the province notched up a major achievement by repelling the Taliban overnight after the militants launched...
Abdullah Atefi, a poet and historian from Uruzgan province, was killed Wednesday night, allegedly by the Taliban. According to Mohammad Omar Shirzad, governor of Uruzgan, Atefi...
Gul Ahmad Noorzad, a Nimroz MP, confirmed Thursday morning that the Kang district of the province fell to the Taliban overnight. Noorzad said about 30 security...
Special forces of Russia and Uzbekistan took part in the joint exercises in Uzbekistan amid fears in both countries that a worsening security situation in Afghanistan...
Taliban fighters attacked a security checkpoint in Fatehabad area of Sorkh Rud district of Nangarhar province on Thursday morning and have blocked access for motorists along...
The United Nations is ‘deeply concerned’ about the safety and protection of tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan’s Lashkar Gah, who could be trapped by...
National Directorate of Security (NDS) members on Wednesday rescued a five-year-old girl who had been kidnapped four days ago allegedly by her uncle, local officials confirmed....
Life has returned to normal in the Nijrab district of Kapisa province after 13 days of fierce fighting between the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces...
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has called on the Afghan government, the Taliban and the international community to support and strengthen efforts to bring about...
Turkish security forces have detained around 300 migrants, mostly Afghans, on Tuesday who were trying to cross into Turkey from the Iranian border, authorities said on...
At least eight people were killed and more than 20 wounded on Tuesday night in a car bomb explosion outside the house of acting defense minister...
Stepping up ongoing efforts to address corruption in Afghanistan remains critical, the UN said Wednesday in a new report. UNAMA’s fifth annual anti-corruption report, titled “Afghanistan’s...
The members of the UN Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on the United Nations compound in Herat that took place on Friday...
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday night telephonically and expressed his concern over the sharp escalation of violence by...
The Taliban and the Kabul government are far apart in U.S.-backed talks on bringing peace to Afghanistan, with the insurgents demanding “the lion’s share of power”...
Turkey on Tuesday criticised a U.S. program to offer potential resettlement to Afghans who may be targets of Taliban violence due to their U.S. affiliations, saying...
Thousands of Kabul residents took to the streets of the city at 9pm on Tuesday night chanting slogans, including Allahu Akbar (God is Great), in support...
Militants targeted the acting minister of defense, Bismillah Mohammadi’s house in the center of Kabul on Tuesday evening after detonating an explosives-laden car. The explosion in...
David Martinon, the French Ambassador to Kabul said this week that France is very disappointed in the slow progress around the peace talks but that the...
