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

Ghazni lies 150 km (93 miles) southwest of Kabul on the ancient route between the capital and the second city of Kandahar. The militants oc...

The warlord's prominence in the latest fight with the Taliban lays bare the long-simmering conundrum facing President Ashraf Ghani's admini...

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-...

Indian diplomats in Mazar were also evacuated by this flight, ET has learnt. Earlier in the day, the Indian consulate had tweeted, "A speci...

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

In recent days the Taliban have escalated attacks on northern provinces, which lie outside their traditional strongholds in the south but w...

Kunduz is the third provincial capital to fall in the past three days, but the most significant Taliban gain since the insurgents launched ...

The fall of the northern city would be a major blow for the central government, which has largely abandoned fighting in the countryside to ...

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

Following fierce fighting on Thursday evening, dozens of wounded Taliban fighters were being treated at a Pakistan hospital near the border...