投稿者: Reuters in Kabul
No immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in which suicide bomber detonated explosives, say police A suicide blast at an education institute in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed 19 people and wounded 27, police said on Friday.The explosi…
Navy veteran exchanged for Bashir Noorzai, who had been held in US since 2005 on drugs chargesThe Taliban have freed an American engineer in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader linked to the group whom the US had held on drugs charges since 2005.Mark …
UN expresses concern over rising number of civilian casualties from explosionsA blast that tore through a Kabul mosque during evening prayers on Wednesday killed 21 people, police said, as the United Nations expressed concern over a growing number of c…
Police report multiple casualties after powerful explosion during evening prayers A huge bomb attack at a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers has killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27 others.There was no im…
Taliban in Kabul investigating death of prominent figure they describe as a ‘huge loss’A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, was killed in an attack in a seminary in Kabul when the attacker detonated explosives hidden in a plastic arti…
The explosion happened in a western district where the minority Shia Muslim community regularly meetA bomb exploded in a busy shopping street in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday injuring at least 22 people, hospital officials and witnesses said….
Explosion in Afghan capital is latest in string of attacks on civilians during RamadanA powerful explosion has killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, the latest of a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan …
Ashraf Ghani says focus is on preventing ‘further instability, violence and displacement’Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, held urgent talks with local leaders and international partners on Saturday as Taliban rebels pushed closer to Kabul, captur…
Identity of assailants unknown, but Taliban fighters are known to have penetrated city after US withdrawalThe main UN compound in the capital of the western Afghan province of Herat was attacked by “anti-government elements” on Friday and at least one …
Militants say they have made what could be their most significant advance in a nationwide offensiveTaliban fighters said on Wednesday that they had taken control of one of Afghanistan’s main border crossings with Pakistan, perhaps their most strategic …
Attack in Afghan capital injures mainly female students coming out of school in Shia Muslim areaAt least 40 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a bomb attack on girls leaving their school in a largely Shia Muslim neighbourhood in Kabul.R…
Activist and politician Habiba Sarabi tells Moscow talks ‘51% of people should not be ignored’A three-day conference aimed at breathing life into Afghanistan’s stalled peace process has been launched in Moscow, but Afghan human rights activists have ra…
Shamsia Alizada, 18, first out of more than 170,000 studentsGovernment in talks with Taliban, which barred girls in schoolsThe daughter of an Afghan coalminer has come top in the country’s university entrance exam and is setting her sights on becoming …
At least eight killed and dozens evacuated during attack by people wearing police uniforms Gunmen have attacked a hospital in Kabul where the international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a maternity clinic, killing at lea…
Newsweek says 57-year-old taken last week in eastern Khost province, reportedly by Taliban-linked Haqqani networkA US citizen has been kidnapped in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province, according to media reports. Related: Taliban warns of more US dead…