Mohammad Hasan Akhund, the senior Taliban leader named acting prime minister in Afghanistan, urged Afghans who worked with the U.S. and had fled to return to the country and assured their safety upon ...

As global attention remains fixed on the sprawling war in the Middle East, another conflict is edging towards a dangerous ...

Updates to this live blog have ended. Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said on Friday they were willing to negotiate after Pakistan bombed their forces in major ...

KABUL, March 30 (Reuters) - Afghanistan and Pakistan have traded heavy fire, both sides said, days after they announced a temporary pause in fighting, escalating tensions in the volatile region as ...

Report from Amnesty International finds Afghans less likely to find sanctuary in the UK than before Taliban takeover ...

On Thursday, heavy military clashes had taken place in the eastern Khost Province of Afghanistan. At that time, the Taliban accused the Pakistan Army of shelling civilian homes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A U.S. citizen held in Afghanistan for over a year has been freed, the Taliban said Tuesday. Dennis Coyle, 64, was released after ...

Afghanistan's anti-doping programme has collapsed since the Taliban's return to power, with no tests conducted for three ...

The U.S. is considering relocating over 1,000 Afghan allies and their families from Qatar to Congo, sparking concerns over ...

The ongoing “open war” between Muslim-majority neighbors Pakistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan has put communities living along the disputed border on edge.

Between now and April 30, U.N. member states have a narrow window to publicly support the explicit inclusion of gender apartheid in the draft Convention on Crimes Against Humanity. As the 70th session ...

Nestled in a high-altitude valley in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountain range, Kabul is rapidly running out of water. Experts ...