Rescue efforts continue in western Herat province, Afghanistan, three days after a powerful earthquake killed over 2,000 people. The epicen...

Janan Sayeeq, spokesman for the Ministry of Disasters, said in a message to Reuters that the toll had risen to 2,445 dead, but he revised d...

A series of strong earthquakes in Western Afghanistan have resulted in over 2,000 deaths, with hundreds of houses destroyed and damaged. Th...

The United Nations gave a preliminary figure of 320 dead, but later said the figure was still being verified. Local authorities gave an est...

The Taliban say they have improved security in the country since taking power around a year ago, but there have been several blasts in rece...

The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, a witness said Saturday, in a gruesome...

"I never imagined that Kandahar would be taken so easily," she said echoing a sentiment made by Afghans across the country when the Taliban...

The "Lion of Herat" has been a huge figure throughout Afghanistan's tumultuous modern history, initially rising to be one of the most power...

“They (Taliban) will not engage in meaningful negotiations unless the situation changes on the battlefield; therefore, we should have a cle...

The Afghan government, as a result of the offensive, deployed hundreds of special forces on Sunday as the Taliban advanced to capture the c...

The conference - Herat Security Dialogue III (HSD) - was hosted by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) from October 2-3 in He...

Yesterday, the Afghan Interior Ministry had said three Taliban members have been arrested by Afghan security forces in connection with the ...

US is in touch with both Indian and Afghan authorities on the abduction of an Indian aid worker from Herat in Afghanistan by unidentified g...

The Afghan police has already created more pickets and deployed round-the-clock security by mobile police squads outside the Herat consulat...

India is in constant touch with the Afghan govt that has launched a search operation for 47-year-old Prem Kumar, who was abducted yesterday...

Senior government sources in India believe that this was an attempt by hardliners to send out a signal to Modi who had tried to reach out t...

The Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry said the government was assessing and examining the situation along with the Afghan gover...