KANDAHAR, Afghanistan :  A passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker in Afghanistan before dawn Friday, killing at least 30 people, many of them heading for the poppy harvest, officials said. The accident happened in the Maiwand district of [...]

KABUL : Afghanistan’s policewomen suffer sexual assault by male colleagues, often inside police stations, a rights group said Thursday, calling for women-only toilets and changing facilities to curb such abuse. Addressing the concerns [...]

KABUL :  Eleven people are confirmed dead and three are missing after flash floods swept through part of northern Afghanistan, damaging almost a thousand homes, an official said Wednesday. The floods Tuesday hit the Kishindih, Sholgara and [...]

JALALABAD, Afghanistan :  Thirteen people were killed, dozens injured and scores of mud-brick homes were flattened when a powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. The Red Crescent in the worst-hit province [...]

KABUL :  Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by almost 30 percent in the first three months of 2013, a UN envoy has said, describing a recent Taliban attack on court staff as a “war crime”. Jan Kubis, UN special representative [...]

KABUL :  In a dusty city of grey concrete blast walls where there’s not always much to smile about, the organisers of a children’s circus try to provide a splash of colour and some moments of joy. The Kabul-based Mobile Mini-Circus [...]

PULI ALAM, Afghanistan : Afghan village elders were locked in talks with the Taliban on Tuesday in a bid to free 10 foreign and one Afghan hostage being held captive by the militia for a third day, officials said. The Taliban, who are fighting [...]

GHAZNI, Afghanistan  – Six Afghan police were killed Sunday in a Taliban raid helped by an “insider”, officials said, in the latest such attack to hit Western-trained security forces. The militants stormed a police post in [...]

KABUL  – Attacks by Afghanistan’s Taliban and other insurgents soared in the first quarter of 2013, raising the grim prospect of an unusually violent year, a study by an independent group showed Saturday. The violence overwhelmingly [...]

KABUL  – Afghanistan’s Taliban Islamic insurgents have amputated a hand and a foot of two private security guards because they worked for foreign troops, police and one of the victims said Saturday. The Taliban confirmed they had [...]