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The arrest of an Afghan national accused of planning an Election Day terror plot is fueling concerns from congressional lawmakers that there could be more potential ...

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.

As U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan days after the Taliban’s resurgence in 2021, hundreds of thousands of Afghans flocked to the Kabul airport, desperate to be evacuated. Among them were ...

Iranian border guards have reportedly killed dozens of Afghans in a massacre as they attempted to enter the country. The Islamic Republic’s border forces ambushed and opened fire on a group of ...

The Taliban is attempting to force divorced child brides to return to their adult former husbands, despite the girls having been granted divorce by the Afghan government, the BBC reported on ...

The Afghan ministry for vice and virtue has directed media platforms in Maidan Wardak, Kandahar and Takhar provinces to not show images of “living things with a soul”, taken as meaning people ...

Government agencies are pointing fingers over how an Afghan national, who is now charged with plotting an Election Day terror attack, was allowed into the U.S. and ...

Afghan refugees who fled the 2021 Taliban offensive are still struggling to adapt to life in Japan, a situation that has furthered criticism of Tokyo’s treatment of asylum seekers. Japan accepts ...

An Afghan National Army general in his book recalls an F-35 airstrike in Afghanistan that left a lasting impression on Afghan troops. (Staff Sgt. Zachary Rufus/Air Force) From its first days on ...

A 22-year-old Afghan was indicted and imprisoned in France on Saturday, accused of supporting the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) and of having "fomented" a "plan for violent action" in a ...

They included a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital earlier this month and a May gun attack in the central city of Bamiyan, he added. Both attacks resulted in the deaths of at least ten people ...