The Latest Breaking News from Kabul

Afghanistan's Hazara community, a Shiite minority, is regularly targeted by the Afghan branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, which considers Hazaras as heretics. Dozens of people, mostly girls, were killed in an attack on an education centre in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul on September 30. Although the attack…

Hahmed Sabouri was taken to a detention centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, where the Taliban tortured him for three days before shooting him in the back of the head

Germany has started a new programme to admit Afghans deemed most at risk following last year's Taliban takeover in Kabul, the interior and foreign ministries said on Monday.

Group Captain Kevin Latchman made the decision to take off from a pitch-black runway following a power cut.

"It is just heartbreaking and we are in shock."

Ride a bike. Learn the guitar. Continue studying. All of this came to a violent end for 16-year-old Marzia Mohammadi. Her diary lays bare the struggles of Afghan girls since the Taliban takeover.

A blast hit a mosque in Kabul in the vicinity of the heavily fortified interior ministry compound on Wednesday, the ministry's spokesman said.

Relatives and friends of young women killed by a suicide bomber at an education centre in Afghanistan last week write about their loved ones

Women rallied across various cities in Afghanistan after dozens of mostly young women were killed in a school attack.

A tally compiled by The Associated Press shows that last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than double the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials

At least 38 killed and 82 wounded in attack on education centre where the majority of victims were young women.