Hibatullah Akhundzada's assertions came days after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced he was ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

Kandahar, a southern province bordering Iran and Pakistan, is the birthplace of the Taliban. Although the group’s cabinet and prime minister are based in Kabul, senior officials frequently ...

The 217 km Dilaram-Zaranj Highway now links Chabahar with Afghanistan's 2,100 km Ring Road System connecting Herat, Kandahar, Kabul and Mazar-e-Shareef. Chabahar's two older ports (Shahid Beheshti ...

KABUL: The Islamic State group claimed Wednesday a suicide bombing of a bank in north Afghanistan which killed ...

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada visited Kandahar University, urging a harmony between religious and modern education.

More than 18,000 Afghan nationals have travelled back to Afghanistan from Pakistan’s Rawalpindi and Islamabad in January this ...

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Taliban tell Trump they want to reset relationship with US – but don’t expect to get Humvees back - Taliban denies wanting to ...

The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Public Works has signed road construction contracts with two companies worth ...

Between January 16 and 31, 291 heads of households were interviewed through a flow monitoring registry (FMR) form, while ...