Flash floods due to unusually heavy seasonal rains kill at least 68 people in AfghanistanFlash floods in Afghanistan kill 68, with 50 dead in Ghor and 18 in Farayab. Abdul Wahid Hamas reports significant financial losses in Ghor...
18 May, 2024, 05.40 PM IST
Afghanistan earthquake: Death toll from strong shocks rises to over 2000A series of strong earthquakes in Western Afghanistan have resulted in over 2,000 deaths, with hundreds of houses destroyed and damaged. Th...
08 Oct, 2023, 12.02 PM IST
Two 6.3-magnitude earthquakes kill dozens and injure many more in western AfghanistanThe United Nations gave a preliminary figure of 320 dead, but later said the figure was still being verified. Local authorities gave an est...
07 Oct, 2023, 11.04 PM IST
Taliban publicly execute man accused of murder, senior officials attendThe execution in western Farah province was of a man accused of stabbing another man to death in 2017, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Muja...
07 Dec, 2022, 05.58 PM IST
Afghan cities taken over or contested by TalibanFollowing is a list of provincial capitals that have fallen to, or are being contested by the Islamist militants, who are fighting to reimp...
13 Aug, 2021, 12.29 PM IST
Ghazni Governor arrested for handing over province to TalibanLaghmani was let go and escorted by the Taliban from Ghazni to Wardak. Mirwais Stanikzai, spokesperson of the Ministry, said that parts of ...
13 Aug, 2021, 12.22 PM IST
3 more provincial capitals fall to Taliban: Afghan officialsThe fall of the capitals of Badakhshan and Baghlan provinces to the northeast and Farah province to the west put increasing pressure on the...
11 Aug, 2021, 10.57 PM IST
Taliban launches huge Afghan offensive after deadline for United States pullout"There was a thunderstorm of heavy weapons and blasts in the city and the sound of small arms was like someone was making popcorn," Mulah J...
04 May, 2021, 04.03 PM IST
10 Taliban terrorists killed, three injured during airstrikes in Afghanistan's FarahLast week, seven Taliban terrorists were killed after the Afghan military foiled an attack on security checkpoints in the southern Afghan d...
30 Dec, 2020, 07.42 AM IST
Afghan military helicopter crash kills four: officialsThe aircraft was flying from Herat to the neighbouring province of Farah on Friday night when it experienced "technical problems", Farah pr...
15 Sep, 2018, 03.00 PM IST
Afghan government under pressure as Taliban threaten new districtThe fighting in Ghazni, which has long had a heavy Taliban presence, follows several days of fighting in Farah province, on the other side ...
20 May, 2018, 10.35 PM IST
Official: Taliban kill 27 police in security post attacksMatiullah Helal, acting provincial police spokesman, says at least 15 other police were wounded when the insurgents stormed various securit...
14 Nov, 2017, 01.48 PM IST
Mullah Omar family members may decline top Taliban positionsThe Taliban last week launched a major operation in Zabul province of Afghanistan, killing several members of the new breakaway faction.
23 Nov, 2015, 02.35 PM IST
Rising IS not just a challenge for Afghanistan, but also for India: Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat KarzaiThe dreaded Islamic State is gaining grounds and expanding presence in parts of Afghanistan , feared Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat ...
21 Nov, 2015, 10.32 AM IST
- NATO says it fired at insurgents in Pakistan
NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at insurgents inside Pakistan in an attack the alliance said was coordinated w...
18 Nov, 2008, 08.35 PM IST
- Taliban kill Afghanistan's most high-profile policewoman
Taliban militants shot dead the most high-profile female police officer in Afghanistan Sunday and killed four more policemen in other attac...
28 Sep, 2008, 09.57 PM IST
- Afghan bride, groom dead in wedding party bomb blast
A bus carrying a wedding party struck a mine in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, killing the bride and groom and eight others, sai...
03 Aug, 2008, 07.01 AM IST