The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Militants target health centers in Pakistan's anti-polio campaign, hindering vaccination efforts amidst security threats.

Double amputee Kushal Limbu recounts the day in Afghanistan that changed his life and tells how golf has been an integral part of his rehabilitation...

Afghanistan's morality ministry is gradually introducing a ban on images of living beings in media, with multiple provinces announcing restrictions and some Taliban officials refusing to be photographed or filmed, journalists across the country told AFP. Since mid-October the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice…

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Minister for veterans and people Alistair Carns, who is a veteran of the conflict himself, attended the ceremony and laid a wreath.

Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack

Extreme restrictions on media workers mean life in Afghanistan – including human rights abuses – will go undocumented, journalists say

Taliban officials in Afghanistan's south have banned all media from showing images of living things to comply with the Taliban's morality laws

The Taliban, an ultraconservative Islamic political group, retook control of Kabul a little more than three years ago, dashing many Afghans’ hopes for a tolerant, democratic government.

Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a surge in new polio cases ahead of a new nationwide campaign, hampering years-long efforts aimed at making the country a polio-free state

Internet chatter and Oklahoma arrest of alleged would-be IS attacker indicate terror group’s planning