Taliban say suicide blast in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19The explosion inside the center in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul took place in the morning hours, said the spokesman, Khalid Zadr...
30 Sep, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
At least 16 dead as blasts rock Afghan cities, IS claims responsibilityEarlier Thursday in the capital, Kabul, a roadside bomb exploded and injured two children. That bomb also targeted the country's minority S...
21 Apr, 2022, 06.35 PM IST
Six killed in blasts at Shiite school in Afghan capitalThe school is located in the capital's western neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, an area mainly inhabited by the Hazara community and previo...
19 Apr, 2022, 02.36 PM IST
Despite mistrust, Afghan Shiites seek Taliban protectionIt was a sign of the strange, new relationship brought by the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August. The Taliban, Sunni hard-liners w...
16 Nov, 2021, 12.39 PM IST
Blast at Shi'ite mosque in Afghan city of Kandahar kills dozensNematullah Wafa, a former member of the provincial council, said the blast occurred at the Imam Bargah mosque and caused heavy casualties b...
15 Oct, 2021, 07.24 PM IST
Can the Taliban suppress the potent IS threat?“Historically, the majority of IS attacks have targeted the state ... Now that the US and the international presence is mostly gone, they n...
12 Oct, 2021, 12.41 PM IST
Taliban size up the threat from a tenacious IS-KIslamic State in Khorasan is a broader Islamic State group. It was officially founded in 2014, when Sunni extremists fighting insurgencies ...
10 Oct, 2021, 06.19 PM IST
At least 100 dead, wounded in northern Afghanistan mosque blast targeted at ShiitesIf 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 ...
08 Oct, 2021, 07.09 PM IST
Five challenges for the Taliban in AfghanistanThe last time the group was in power from 1996 to 2001, it imposed a harsh interpretation of Islamic law. They banned women from education ...
31 Aug, 2021, 02.32 PM IST
Bombs hit 2 minivans in Kabul, 7 dead: Afghan officialThe explosions targeted minivans on the same road about 2 kilometres apart in a neighbourhood in western Kabul, Interior Ministry deputy sp...
12 Jun, 2021, 06.37 PM IST
Death toll rises to 50 from blasts near Afghan girls' schoolMinister Tareq Arian said a car bomb detonated in front of the Sayed Al-Shuhada School on Saturday, and when the students rushed out in pan...
09 May, 2021, 10.13 AM IST
Hazaras fear for the future as foreign troops exit AfghanistanAfghan security forces are struggling to hold off an increasingly powerful Taliban as international troops withdraw from the county, with p...
03 Feb, 2021, 03.38 PM IST
Pakistani Shiites end protests, hold funeral for 11 minersPrime Minister Imran Khan arrived Saturday afternoon in Quetta and was expected to meet with a delegation of mourners and Shiite leaders, a...
09 Jan, 2021, 08.51 PM IST
Key Al-Qaeda leader killed in AfghanistanAbu Muhsin al-Masri, an Egyptian national believed to be the group's number-two in the Indian sub-continent, was targeted in eastern Ghazni...
25 Oct, 2020, 01.57 PM IST
21 killed, 50 injured in suicide attack in PakistanAt least 50 people were wounded in the blast in the southwestern city of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, officials said.
12 Apr, 2019, 04.41 PM IST
Casualties as blast rips through huge Kabul protest; 50 dead and wounded"I was in the crowd of protesters when a loud bang occurred nearby. Many people have been killed or injured -- I am in deep shock," protest...
23 Jul, 2016, 04.56 PM IST
Bomb attacks kill 53 people in PakistanAt least 53 people were killed and nearly 140 injured in Pakistan today in different attacks, including a powerful bomb blast that targeted...
01 Jul, 2013, 02.23 AM IST