An Afghan man killed his wife for giving birth to a third daughter rather than the son he hoped for, police in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province said on Monday.

The victim, 28, known by the one

A 17-year-old Afghan girl and her family have been sprayed with acid, apparently after rejecting a marriage proposal, officials and the victims said on Thursday.

The girl, Mumtaz, was seriously injur

Nato forces on Wednesday said they killed four insurgents, including two armed women, during an overnight raid targeting an Al Qaeda-linked rebel group in Northern Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber in Northern Afghanistan killed a district governor and two others on Thursday after walking into the administrator's office to hand over a letter, the police said.

A suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a joint Afghan-NATO military convoy in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least six police, an official said.