Afghanistan News

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.1 that rocked eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 950 people.

An explosion occurred in a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday morning. At least two people have been killed and seven others injured.

The US special envoy on Afghanistan has met the Taliban’s acting foreign minister in the Qatari capital Doha and stressed international opposition to the group’s expanding curbs on women and girls.

The United Nations (UN) has released data reporting that food insecurity in parts of Afghanistan has reached “catastrophic” levels.

Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi says the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is an inclusive government.

A former Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan says recognition of the acting Taliban government is not on Tehran’s agenda for the time being, stressing that the new rulers in Kabul must first accept international regulations and ensure Iran’s share of water from the Helmand River.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the United States is using Daesh terrorists to create insecurity in Afghanistan as part of an ethnic-religious plot.

Afghanistan’s former Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, who remained in the country after its takeover by the Taliban, has left for an unknown location for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holidays.

Iran’s Embassy in Kabul has warned that neither Sunni nor Shia Muslims are safe in the face of criminal acts committed by extremist groups.

A bomb blast rips through a mosque in Kubul, killing more than 50 worshippers. The explosion rocked the Afghan capital after Friday prayers.

Two bomb blasts aboard separate minibuses killed at least nine people Thursday night in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif, police confirmed. It comes a week after a deadly explosion rocked a Shiite mosque in the northern city.

Nearly three dozen people have been killed as a huge bomb explosion tears through a Sunni mosque in Afghanistan’s northern city of Kunduz.

Taliban officials say the mastermind behind a deadly terrorist attack targeting a Shia mosque in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif has been arrested in Balkh Province.

A bomb explosion claimed by the Daesh terrorist group has killed at least 31 people in a mosque in the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The bombing also wounded dozens of people.

Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring children, according to Afghan security and health officials.

At least seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in an ambush by an armed group near the Afghanistan border.

As the global attention has shifted from Afghanistan to the Ukraine crisis and the refugees of the country, Afghanistan has showcased a shocking number with 53 percent of the population desiring to leave their own country and seek refuge elsewhere, according to a Gallup poll.

An explosion in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday wounded at least 15 people, according to witnesses.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned some 95 percent of people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat and millions are at risk of famine.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Kabul on Thursday, a Taliban official confirmed. It comes a week before Beijing hosts a meeting of Afghanistan's neighbours to explore ways of helping the country following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that Taliban's decision to suspend high school for girls in Afghanistan was "a profound disappointment and deeply damaging for Afghanistan."

The Taliban have shut down girls’ school in Afghanistan.

The Taliban have issued a decree on Sunday officially banning the internationally-recognized Afghan tricolor flag and replacing it with the so-called Islamic Emirate flag used by the group.

The acting Afghan foreign minister has accused the United States of not following through on the commitments it made during the talks in Qatar’s Doha.

China has criticized Washington's allocation of Afghan assets to compensate the victims of 9/11 attacks. Beijing says the richest country in the world is blatantly plundering the wealth of the poorest.