Families in western Afghanistan, who have lost everything to a series of devastating earthquakes, need urgent assistance to withstand the harsh winter, the UN relief wing reported on Friday.
Temperatures have already started to drop into single (...)
An explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including a prominent cleric, and injuring 21 people, AP has reported.
The blast went off in the Guzargah Mosque in the western city of Herat (...)
A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan killed at least 35 people traveling on a bus, including children, and injured 27 others, officials said on Wednesday.
Security has been deteriorating across Afghanistan, with the Taliban and Islamic State (...)
It is early morning in a saffron field outside the western Afghan city of Herat and dozens of women are harvesting the delicate purple flowers, working quickly to gather as many as they can before the sun gets too hot.
Saffron is the most expensive (...)
Gunmen in the remote central-western Afghan province of Ghor rounded up dozens of civilians and executed them on Wednesday in an attack that officials blamed on Daesh (the so-called IS) fighters retaliating for the death of one of their (...)
Gunmen rounded up and shot dozens of civilians in a remote part of Afghanistan on Tuesday, UN officials said, in an attack that prompted angry protests from residents about government failure to protect them, reported Reuters.
The provincial (...)
Rockets fired in the western Afghan city of Herat on Sunday hit a wall of the provincial governor's building and nearby houses, killing at least one civilian, a Reuters witness and a local official said.
The attack came a day after U.S. forces (...)
As many as 11 soldiers have been killed in an ambush by Taliban insurgents in a western province that borders Iran, AP quoted an Afghan official as reporting.
Hesanullah Hayat, the spokesman for the governor of Herat province, said Monday that an (...)
Three foreign civilians training Afghan national security forces in the western part of the country were killed Sunday by two individuals wearing Afghan army uniforms,
officials said.
"Three contracted civilian employees were killed by two (...)
Qa'dah 16, 1431 H/Oct 24, 2010, SPA -- The United Nations' top diplomat in Afghanistan said on Sunday he will help with efforts to find a negotiated end to a war he believes has no military solution, but he will not discuss progress.
Staffan de (...)
At least 25 Afghan passengers were killed and 20 wounded when their bus was hit by a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, the government said.
“Afghanistan once again saw a day of bloodshed of innocent civilian lives,” said Ghulam (...)
(Reuters) - At least 25 Afghan passengers were killed and over a dozen wounded when their bus was hit by a roadside bomb (or Improvised Explosive Device, (IEDs) in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, Reuters (...)
Taliban suicide bombers launched simultaneous attacks on three government buildings in southwestern Afghanistan Monday, killing four people, including a government official, the Interior Ministry said.
The Taliban have launched a series of attacks (...)
Afghan businessmen are confident that with new anti-corruption measures and foreign investment, they can carve out a lucrative industry from one of Afghanistan's most abundant natural resources: marble, Reuters reported.
Some experts estimate (...)
Gunmen have kidnapped two Chinese engineers and four Afghans in northern Faryab province, a local police official said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Sayed Aslam Ziarati, police chief of Qaisar district where the men were abducted on Saturday (...)
Two members of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were reported missing today and the Taliban said they were holding the bodies of two drowned foreign soldiers, according to Reuters.
The Islamist militants" spokesman Qare Yousuf told Reuters by (...)
Up to 50 Taleban insurgents have been killed in Afghanistan's western Farah province after clashes that left seven Afghan and two US soldiers dead, government officials said Sunday.
Militants fired mortar rounds at a military-escorted convoy of (...)
A Taliban roadside
bomb killed at least 12 people on Monday in a key commercial
city in western Afghanistan, officials said, amid worsening
security before a presidential poll this month, according to Reuters.
The remote-controlled device may (...)
A roadside bomb
killed 12 Afghan traders as they drove through Afghanistan's
remote west on Monday in an attack apparently meant for Afghan
or foreign troops, witnesses and officials said.
"I saw 12 men were killed and four were wounded," (...)
Two civilians were among ten people killed in a US-led coalition operation in western Afghanistan on Friday, the US military said, the latest in a mounting toll of civilian deaths that has outraged Afghans.
The military said fighting erupted after (...)
Two Iranian nationals were
abducted while traveling from the western city of Herat
towards the Iranian border, a provincial police spokesman said
on Saturday.
"Two Iranian citizens were abducted on the highway between
Herat and Islam Qala," (...)
A bicycle bomb outside the Pakistani consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat wounded a police guard and two civilians on Thursday.
Afghanistan has suffered scores of Taleban suicide and roadside bombs that have killed more than 200 civilians (...)
Afghan security
forces freed two kidnapped road workers from India and Nepal in
a raid on Sunday, officials said.
The pair, employees of a road project, were seized from a
vehicle while travelling on a highway on April 21 in the
western (...)
A suicide blast
killed 18 police and civilians on Thursday in Afghanistan's
western province of Farah, officials said, according to Reuters.
The incident occurred in a bazaar near a police station in
Del Aram district of Farah, they said, adding (...)
Thousands of Afghans
demonstrated Saturday in western Afghanistan, shouting
angry slogans against Denmark and the Netherlands for
insults against Islam, AP quoted police sources as saying.
Thousands of people walked through the city of Herat (...)
