The bombing happened in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of western Kabul, a predominantly Shiite Muslim area home to the minority Hazara c...

Police said there were multiple casualties but did not say how many. One Taliban intelligence official told Reuters that as many as 35 peop...

The Taliban claim they have full control of Afghanistan but the Islamic State continues carrying out attacks on civilians and police across...

In August, the Islamists accelerate their campaign, seizing a string of cities in a lightning 10-day sweep across the country that culminat...

"There were around 30 people inside the temple. We don't know how many of them are alive or how many dead. The Taliban are not allowing us ...

Scores of Afghan civilians have been killed in recent weeks in blasts, some of which have been claimed by the Islamic State. Afghanistan's ...

Earlier Thursday in the capital, Kabul, a roadside bomb exploded and injured two children. That bomb also targeted the country's minority S...

The Afghan branch of the Islamic State group, which first emerged in Nangarhar in 2015, has claimed responsibility for a series of bloody a...

Two blasts struck close to the entrance of the sprawling site followed by reports of shooting inside the hospital, the Taliban and a witnes...

Islamic State, which has carried out a series of attacks on mosques and other targets since the Taliban's seizure of Kabul in August, attac...

Nematullah Wafa, a former member of the provincial council, said the blast occurred at the Imam Bargah mosque and caused heavy casualties b...

If confirmed, the death toll in Friday's attack would be the highest in an attack by militants since U.S. and NATO troops left Afghanistan ...

After overrunning Kabul seven weeks ago the hardliners have set up an interim Afghan government, but still face attacks from the regional b...

Violence had dropped across much of Afghanistan since the Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire on May 24 to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday...

"Dozens of members belonging to the enemy forces have been killed and wounded in the attack," Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, a spokesman for the hardl...

On Thursday, another blast took place near a Sikh crematorium here, injuring a child and disrupting funeral services for the 25 members of ...

Suicide bombers detonated an explosives-packed car near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday morning, o...