The Taliban on Sunday seized the last major city outside of Kabul held by the country's increasingly isolated central government, cutting o...

Over the past six days, the insurgents have overrun nine provincial capitals across the country, most of them clustered in the north, in a ...

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...

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Qatar was venue to two back-to-back international meetings on the Afghan situation. The US special representative...

Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, and other political leaders including Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, ...

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

While former Herat strongman Ismail Khan, now in his 70s, is planning to regroup to fight the Taliban, dozens of fighters have pledged loya...

"They shot my sister right in the heart," Reyhana said. "No one from the government even came to apologize. They tried to say she was a pro...

On Friday External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held talks with former Afghan vice president and Delhi's old friend Marshal Abdul Rashid D...