There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State group has been waging a campaign of violence ...

The experts said in the report to the UN Security Council that with the onset of better weather, fighting may escalate as both Islamic Stat...

"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...

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 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 insurgents have for weeks been trying to take Kandahar and Lashkar Gah -- both with Pashtun majorities from where the Taliban draw thei...

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

A delegation of senior Afghan leaders met the Taliban's political leadership in the Qatari capital over the last two days, but a Taliban st...

In Camp Istiqlal, family after family, all from the Hazara ethnic minority, told of Taliban commanders using heavy-handed tactics as they o...