The Afghan government will gradually release 5,000 Taliban prisoners starting this week if the insurgents significantly reduce violence,
Police confirmed there was an explosion in the heavily fortified area but could not immediately provide further details.
Suicide bombers struck two mosques in Afghanistan during Friday prayers. A Shiite mosque in Kabul and a Sunni mosque in western Ghor province was
A top official said the attacker was on foot and walked into to the Imam Zaman Mosque today in the city's Dashti Barch area where he detonated
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place two days before the Muslim holy day of Ashura.
To hit back at the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US said it launched two missiles, one of which missed its intended target and killed at least one
Two of the assailants blew themselves up and another two were shot to death by Afghan security forces.
At least 24 people have been killed and 42 others have been wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul
US defence secretary James Mattis, however, said that he had yet not decided on the final plan of deploying troops.
The death toll from a devastating truck bomb in Kabul's diplomatic quarter last week has jumped to more than 150, President Ashraf Ghani told an
At least 80 people were killed and hundreds wounded when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul’s diplomatic area that houses several
Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said today the target of the bomber was a convoy of foreign forces.
More than 30 people were killed and around 50 wounded when terrorists dressed as doctors stormed Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in
At least 21 people were killed and 45 wounded in twin bombings near the Afghan parliament in Kabul today, a security official said. “The