A rocket landed in the heavily fortified diplomatic area of Kabul late Monday, police said, hours before U.S. President Donald Trump was due to announce his long-awaited strategy for the war-weary country. It was the latest in a series of attacks in the city and ...
The Islamic State group claimed it had attacked the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul on Monday as a series of explosions and the sound of gunfire shook the Afghan capital in a continuing assault. A security source said a suicide bomber had blown himself up outside ...
At least six police were killed and dozens of people wounded when as many as six gunmen and a suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, officials said. It took Afghan security forces most of the day to kill the ...
Suicide bombers struck a crowded Shiite mosque in Kabul late Thursday, killing four people in the latest in a series of militant attacks to rattle the Afghan capital during the holy month of Ramadan. The assault claimed by Islamic State jihadis left eight others wounded ...
Anguished Afghans scoured hospitals and morgues in Kabul Wednesday, sifting through disfigured and charred bodies for missing relatives after a catastrophic truck bombing left at least 90 people dead and hundreds wounded. The bomb, hidden inside a sewage tanker, detonated close to the presidential palace ...
A German aid worker and an Afghan guard were killed and a Finnish woman kidnapped as gunmen stormed an international guest house in Kabul, officials said Sunday, underscoring rising insecurity in the war-torn country. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack late ...
U.S. and Afghan troops killed the leader of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate in an April raid, U.S. military officials confirmed on Sunday. The raid in Nangarhar province targeted the leader, Abdul Hasib, U.S.-Forces Afghanistan said. His group is affiliated with IS in Iraq and ...
A suicide car bomber rammed into a bus carrying employees of one of Afghanistan's biggest telecom companies during rush hour Monday, just days after a deadly insurgent assault on the country's largest military hospital. At least one woman was killed and 19 others wounded in ...
Insiders including two interns were among the attackers who launched a gun-and-grenade assault last week on Afghanistan's largest military hospital, killing more than 100 people, multiple surviving staff and security sources told AFP. The six-hour attack on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital on Wednesday began ...
An American and an Australian appeared in a Taliban hostage video released on Wednesday, five months after they were kidnapped from Kabul. Gunmen wearing police uniforms abducted the two professors at the American University of Afghanistan in the heart of the Afghan capital on Aug. ...
There was an angry reaction in Afghanistan to news that the first female fixed-wing pilot in the country's air force is requesting asylum in the United States after completing an 18-month training course. The Defense Ministry in Kabul confirmed Sunday that Capt. Niloofar Rahmani, 25, ...
Afghan police and health officials raided cafes and restaurants in Kabul on Sunday, confiscating shisha water pipes and paraphernalia in a campaign to halt "debauchery and vulgarity. Critics say the campaign will only distract police from the Afghan capital's deteriorating security situation, while doing little ...
