A magnitude-5.5 earthquake rattled Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan this morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The temblor wa

US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman has said Washington would continue to support the Afghan peace process.

"The ultimate goal of our efforts has been and remained to create a

Twenty-seven Taliban militants surrendered before government authorities in Afghanistan on Sunday, Xinhua reported.

According to a top provincial official, a seven-member group of Taliban militants s

At least two policemen were killed and one was wounded on Tuesday when a group of suicide bombers stormed a government building in southeastern Afghanistan, the ministry of interior said.

The group o

The elusive Afghan Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who had called on his warriors in 2011 November to continue the war against NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, has now confirmed having ope

The Afghan Taliban said Tuesday they have reached a preliminary deal with the Gulf state of Qatar to open a liaison office there in what could be the first step toward peace talks to end more than a d

The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday they have reached a preliminary agreement to set up a political office in the Gulf nation of Qatar, and asked for the release of prisoners held at the U.S. military

A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her in-laws for five months after she refused to become a prostitute, it has emerged.

Sahar Gul was rescued from a ho

Travellers in Afghanistan will face death if they do not have mobile phones playing Taliban ringtones and messages.

Taliban ringtones include the titles ‘Teenager’, ‘Doomsday’ and ‘Suicide Bomber’.

The U.S. military acknowledged on Thursday that commanders in Afghanistan made serious mistakes during a cross-border raid last month in which 24 Pakistani police officers were killed.

A report about