An Afghan district governor and three of his guards were killed on Tuesday when their vehicle was blown up in a Taliban roadside bomb in the east of the country, an official said.

Asil Khan Khogyani,

Two large explosions rocked the Afghan capital Kabul near a hotel popular with Westerners and the home of the vice president on Friday in what police said was a double suicide attack.

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Five Taliban attackers laid siege to a British cultural centre in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least nine people during an hours-long assault on the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan's indep

A suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb near the entrance of a heavily-guarded US-run base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, wounding three Afghan guards, police said.

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A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. soldiers and 7 Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, a devastating toll and easily the worst single

A military helicopter with the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, Xinhua reported.

Eighteen civilians were killed on Friday morning when their bus ran over a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Helmand province, police said.

The blast took place in Nahri Sarraj district, 555 km south of

Three suicide attackers on Thursday blew up vehicles packed with explosives at the gates of a government compound in southern Afghanistan, the opening salvo of an hours-long fight that left at leas

Attracting dust but few prospective buyers in a car lot on the outskirts of Kabul, three saloon cars, a crane and a dump truck sit abandoned due a numerical curse that has swept Afghanistan.

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An 8 year-old boy was hanged by suspected members of the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand province, after the boy's father-a police commander, refused to comply with militants’ demands.

The boy was k