The Taliban responded with contradictory stances in the effort to rescue women and girls who were wounded and left homeless.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – By switching from studying business management to training as a nurse, 19-year-old Anita Taraky has placed a bet on the future of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar _ ...

Shortly before a ceasefire brought an end to a week of violence along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in which dozens of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday in a multipronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the insurgents have seized a ...

After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.

An Afghan police officer who killed two American military advisers in 2012 is released early from his 20-year sentence. By David Zucchino and Najim Rahim With peace talks on hold, the Taliban have ...

KUNDUZ (Reuters) - Just before dawn on Monday, the residents of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz awoke to the crack of gunfire, as Taliban fighters fought their way into the city from three sides.

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. military now acknowledges making a deadly mistake two weeks ago in a nighttime raid on a village near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Pentagon sources ...

Mumbai: Mumbai police's crime branch has detained from Colaba, Fort and Dharavi six Afghan nationals residing in India ...

The Afghan national accused of an Election Day terrorist plot reportedly worked for the CIA before coming to the United States in 2021. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, is accused of conspiring to conduct an ...

Self-immolation of desperate young women on the rise. HERAT, Afghanistan Dec. 13, 2012— -- Laying in a hospital bed, 21-year old Wahida longs for the one thing she knows she'll never have: Her ...