Opium production has dropped sharply in Afghanistan, but trafficking in the region is on the rise, according to a Thursday ...

Afghan and Pakistani troops briefly exchanged fire along their shared border on Thursday, both nations said, on the same day ...

The death toll from an earthquake in northern Afghanistan is climbing, and hundreds of families have lost their homes as the ...

Having lost his job as a police trainer after the Taliban takeover last August, Hussain Ali moved back to his village in ...

UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before Taliban’s narcotics ban.

Five people were killed and six were wounded in brief cross-border fire between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday, a ...

Afghanistan's Taliban government says a powerful earthquake in the country's north has killed at least 20 people and left ...

Survivors of a powerful earthquake in northern Afghanistan are digging through the rubble of their homes after spending a ...

Despite the ceasefire, all important border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan remain closed to trade and civilian movement. The crossings were shut on October 12, though Pakistan has ...

A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Afghanistan on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

Women in Afghanistan are being forced to undergo so-called virginity tests, more than two years after a law requiring consent ...

Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition ...