The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

President Joe Biden confirmed in a speech on Monday evening that Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in a 'precision' drone strike

The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone missile while he stood on a balcony at his home in Kabul, U.S. officials said, the biggest blow to the militants since Osama bin Laden was shot dead more than a decade ago.

Secret schools formed as girls banned from classes languish with no accredited route to university

Channel 4’s documentary is an engrossing investigation into Royal Marine Al Blackman, who was charged with battlefield manslaughter. But it fails to ask basic questions about the real victim – the man he killed

Iranian border guards clashed Sunday with the Afghan Taliban, Iranian media reported, the latest cross-border exchange since the former insurgents seized power in neighboring Afghanistan a year ago. The official IRNA news agency quoted Meisam Barazandeh, governor of the border country of Hirmand in eastern Iran, as saying that the…

Several similar incidents have taken place since the Taliban’s armed takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.

Clashes between Taliban forces and Iran border guards on Sunday have left at least one dead on the Afghanistan side, an Afghan police official said.

WASHINGTON — As the Senate voted this week on a bill that would help veterans sickened by toxic fumes from burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was standing near the front of the room chatting with colleagues.

A Taliban spokesman says two people died after a hand grenade exploded during a cricket match the capital of Kabul the previous day