The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

For the first time since fleeing their home and finding sanctuary in Australia, the team are taking their battle for equality onto the playing field

Australia have beaten Afghanistan by two wickets to claim third place at the Under-19 cricket World Cup in the West Indies.

Letter to former guard at British embassy in Kabul says measures will come into effect on 11 February

The U.S. raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State's leader is a much-needed national security win for President Joe Biden after the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan while he tries to project an image of strength in a standoff with Russia over Ukraine, analysts said.

The military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber, carrying 20 pounds of explosives packed with ball bearings, acted alone, and that the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were not preventable

The U.S. military said on Friday that a single Islamic State bomber killed 13 U.S. troops and at least 170 Afghans at Kabul airport last August, not the complex attack originally suspected, and that it could not have been prevented with the resources on hand.

After a six-month pandemic-related delay, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation battle against three newspapers resumed this week with evidence from two of Australia's most-elite soldiers.

(This February 4 story deletes incorrect description of Boko Haram as an affiliate of Al Qaeda in paragraph 14; corrects number of Islamic State affiliates in West and Central Africa in paragraph 15; relationship between Islamic State West Africa Province and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in paragraph 17;…

EXCLUSIVE: England captain Tom Prest is confident his side can beat India in the Under 19 World Cup final and win the tournament for the first time since 1998

The Taliban reportedly captured 40 people in Mazar-e-Sharif, a medium-sized city in Afghanistan, at the end of January 2022. Taliban members then allegedly gang-raped eight of the women.

A coal mine on Wednesday night in Nahrin district of Afghanistan's Baghlan province killed ten miners.