Afghan Foreign Affairs Minister Zalmai Rasoul has said the government will not object to the Taliban opening an office in the country or abroad for conducting negotiations on bringing peace to the cou

At least 34 people were killed in twin shrine bombings in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday, according to police and an AFP photographer.

A massive blast at a shrine in central

A total of 54 people were killed and 150 others wounded in a massive blast close to a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, the country's health ministry said.

"Fifty-four are dead a

Under a new 'reintergration' programme being devised in Afghanistan, NATO and allies are paying 100 pounds to members of the Taliban to stop fighting, a Daily Telegraph report has revealed.

The deal

Lack of adequate laws to protect the integrity of women in Afghanistan is once again been questioned after it emerged that a woman, who was raped by her cousin’s husband and was jailed on charges of a

The Taliban's self-styled 'financial in-charge' has been arrested in a major anti-terrorism operation in Afghanistan, officials said.

Afghan forces launched a clean-up operation Sunday against the Ta

A major meeting of Afghan elders discussing the country's long-term relationship with the United States has been hit by a strange superstition surrounding the number 39, officials confirmed on Thursda

Insurgents on Thursday fired a rocket near the venue of a major meeting in the Afghan capital Kabul discussing the controversial presence of US troops after NATO combat forces leave in 2014.

The stri

A US organisation said on Tuesday that 35 per cent of Afghans believe their country is moving in the wrong direction, the highest level of dissatisfaction found since polling began in 2004.

The Asia

Up to 70 Taliban fighters were killed after trying to attack a foreign troop base in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said on Wednesday.

The attempted assault happened late Tuesday at a combat o