A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Afghanistan's remote south-eastern region on Thursday night, the third quake in six days, as the death toll from the first continued to rise.
The shallow quake hit at 20:56 local time (15:36 GMT) and sent people in (...)
Aid agencies in the worst affected areas of Afghanistan after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck on Sunday have called on the international community to increase funding.
Only a handful of countries have committed money to help aid efforts after the (...)
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have called for international help after a huge earthquake killed hundreds of people and leveled entire villages, piling further misery on the war-ravaged country that was already grappling with food shortages and cuts (...)
Rescuers are using helicopters to search for survivors in the ruins of remote villages in eastern Afghanistan after a powerful earthquake killed 800 people and injured 1,800 others.
Many are feared trapped under the rubble of their homes after the (...)
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan's eastern region on Sunday, according to state-run media.
Rescue workers have been mobilized in several districts of the mountainous region, (...)
As a journalist in Afghanistan, Abdul says he helped promote American values like democracy and freedom. That work, he said, resulted in him being tortured by the Taliban after the US withdrew from the country in 2021.
Now he's in California (...)
KABUL — Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League and President of the Association of Muslim Scholars, held high-level meetings with Afghan ministers in Kabul this week, focusing on strengthening Islamic solidarity, (...)
The son of a British couple detained by the Taliban five months ago has told the BBC that he fears they may die in prison.
Peter Reynolds, 80, and Barbie, 76, were arrested on 1 February while returning to their home in central Bamiyan province, (...)
KABUL — Afghan Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund received Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) and Chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars, at the Gul Khana Palace in Kabul on Monday.
The two (...)
Thousands of Afghans have moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data, it can be revealed.
In February 2022, the personal details of nearly 19,000 people who had applied to move to (...)
The Pakistan army on Friday said it had killed at least 30 suspected militants during an attempted cross-border infiltration from Afghanistan into the tribal district of North Waziristan.
In an official statement, the military said the group was (...)
Germany wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban to take back Afghan nationals set for deportation, according to Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
"My idea is that we make agreements directly with Afghanistan to enable (...)
Russia has become the first nation to recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan since it took power in 2021, announcing on Thursday it has accepted an ambassador from the Islamist group.
"We believe that the act of official recognition of the (...)
At least 13 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 24 others wounded, including 14 civilians, in a suicide bombing on Saturday targeting an army convoy in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
The attack occurred in (...)
"My preference will always be for peace and partnership," US President Donald Trump affirmed in Riyadh during the first foreign visit of his second term in office.
The US president was addressing a distinguished audience of the US-Saudi Investment (...)
Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago, the Associated Press reported.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 (...)
The Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, declared on Sunday that Afghanistan has no need for Western legal systems, asserting that Islamic sharia law is fully in effect and that democracy has ended in the country.
"There is no need for (...)
The United States has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban officials, including Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also leads the Haqqani network, a group long blamed for deadly attacks against Afghanistan's former Western-backed (...)
An American airline mechanic has been freed by the Taliban after being held in Afghanistan for more than two years.
George Glezmann, who was detained in December 2022 while visiting as a tourist, arrived by plane in Qatar on Thursday evening before (...)
A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on 1 February when they were detained.
The couple have been running training (...)
Pakistani and Afghan border forces remained on high alert Sunday as the Torkham crossing, a key trade and transit route between the two countries, remained shut for a second consecutive day following a dispute over the construction of a new (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned on Thursday the terrorist attacks in Kunduz province in northeastern Afghanistan and a ministry building in the Afghan capital.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Saudi Arabia's condemnation and (...)
Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old daughter scream from the balcony.
The girl had seen police approach her father in the street outside their safe house in (...)
"It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.
He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. (...)
A senior Taliban figure has called on the group's leader to scrap education bans on women and girls in the country.
In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai said there are no excuses for the bans, according to the (...)
