FBI investigates Tablighi Jamaat connections in Washington DC attack as Afghan veteran's radicalization path emerges through ...

At work last Thursday in the office of his headquarters, a huddle of mud huts in the southern Afghan desert, in Shahwalikot, Hamid Karzai had no reason to be concerned by the rumble of a B-52 bomber ...

Afghan boys take their lunch at a school in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2013. Pashto writing on the wall reads, “no entrance without permission,” it also names the cook, and on the bottom ...

In a further sign that the U.S. military wants to forget that the Afghanistan War ever happened, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California will cease teaching ...

When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...

Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul. A strict Islamic morality law introduced by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers six months ago has severely muzzled civil liberties in the country, according to ...

After the Taliban marched into Kabul in August, 2021, Zahir gathered 40 members of his extended family in the living room to discuss how the takeover would affect their lives. Twenty-five of them were ...

Pakistan opened more border centers on November 3 to hasten the return of tens of thousands of undocumented Afghans, two days after the deadline to leave or face expulsion expired. But as Pakistan ...

(Reuters) - After his inauguration on Thursday, re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would organise a "loya jirga" -- a large assembly of Afghan leaders. Loya jirgas have ...

A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe, listens to a math teacher at a tutoring center in Kabul. The center was established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a ...