A prominent women’s rights advocate and member of the Afghan team tasked with negotiating with the Taliban sustained minor injuries in an attack in Kabul by unknown gunmen, officials said on Sat...

The Taliban wants all private companies and aid organisations operating in Afghanistan to register with the hardline Islamists, officials from the group said. The order was issued last week and comes...

President Donald Trump on Thursday declared that he has reopened peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after scuttling talks in hopes of ending 18 years of war.He made the stateme...

Sir — The news of the massive explosion in Kabul on Saturday, in which at least 63 people were killed and more than 182 injured, was shocking (“Kabul wedding hall blast kills 63”, Aug 19). ...

The coronavirus has stopped the world on its tracks. But it has not been able to stop humans from perpetrating barbaric attacks upon one another. The attack on a gurdwara in Kabul that killed at least...

Cleric Sami ul-Haq, known as the “Father of the Taliban” for having taught some of the Afghan movement’s leaders, was found killed on Friday in a Pakistani city, a relative and his deputy said.U...

The US targeted Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency on Tuesday with sanctions against eight individuals, including two linked to the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.The individuals, who als...

Gen. Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan's most powerful security officials, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting in the governor's compound in the southern province of ...

In a second suicide attack in as many days to rattle the Afghan capital, a car bomb targeting a US convoy exploded early Friday morning in an eastern neighbourhood, leaving seven Afghan casualties, po...

Afghan officials say a brazen Taliban attack on a military base in an eastern province on Monday had killed at least 45 people, most of them military personnel.There are fears, however, that the death...