"As I speak to you today, millions of girls of secondary school age are missing out on education for the 27th consecutive day," Abdi said. ...

Following is a list of provincial capitals that have fallen to, or are being contested by the Islamist militants, who are fighting to reimp...

Laghmani was let go and escorted by the Taliban from Ghazni to Wardak. Mirwais Stanikzai, spokesperson of the Ministry, said that parts of ...

The development comes as Taliban has captured several provincial capitals, including many in the north, over the past week, putting enormou...

The warlord's prominence in the latest fight with the Taliban lays bare the long-simmering conundrum facing President Ashraf Ghani's admini...

The US has already pulled back most of its forces from Afghanistan and is looking to complete the drawdown by August 31, ending nearly two-...

The militants have ramped up their push across much of Afghanistan, turning their guns on provincial capitals after taking large swaths of ...

In recent days the Taliban have escalated attacks on northern provinces, which lie outside their traditional strongholds in the south but w...

Kunduz is the third provincial capital to fall in the past three days, but the most significant Taliban gain since the insurgents launched ...

The fall of the northern city would be a major blow for the central government, which has largely abandoned fighting in the countryside to ...

The deputy governor of Jawzjan province told AFP he was with government forces who had abandoned Sheberghan city and retreated to the airpo...