"This is like doomsday for me. I feel so much grief. Can you imagine what I've gone through watching my children dying?" says Amina.
She's lost six children. None of them lived past the age of three and another is now battling for her (...)
Every few days, bodies are dumped on the outskirts of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Some have been shot or hanged, some beheaded. Many have handwritten notes stuffed into their pockets, accusing them of being members of Afghanistan's branch (...)
A major Afghan-Pakistan border crossing reopened on Saturday after it was closed for several days following deadly clashes between the two countries following the construction of a gate on the Pakistani side to control cross-border movement, (...)
Explosions and gunfire echoed on Wednesday as militants attacked the Indian consulate in Jalalabad in the latest assault to rattle the eastern Afghan city.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the ongoing assault and no fatalities were (...)
Afghan security forces on Wednesday killed a team of suicide bombers who targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, following an attack in which at least six people were wounded, officials said.
The incident, coming just days (...)
At least 14 people were killed when a suicide bomber struck the home of a prominent politician in Jalalabad Sunday, officials said, in the second deadly attack in the eastern Afghan city in less than a week.
The Taliban denied responsibility for the (...)
An Afghan official says a suicide bomber has detonated explosives near the Pakistani consulate in the capital of a volatile eastern province, killing at least two civilians, AP reported.
Attaullah Khyogani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, (...)
A small bomb exploded near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, authorities said, after a series of attacks on Indian installations in the region.
The blast, which happened the morning after a gun and bomb siege (...)
AlQa'dah 05, 1435, August 31, 2014, SPA -- Taliban militants attacked a spy agency in easter Afghanistan on Saturday, killing six people and injuring 45, UPI reported.
The attack took place in the morning with a suicide bomb using an (...)
At least two people were killed when an explosion rocked Jalalabad in Nangarhar province Thursday, Afghan officials said.
According to UPI, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the blast occurred near the provincial (...)
A powerful car bomb at the gates of an airport in eastern Afghanistan killed at least three people, police said.
Obaidullah Talwar, a senior police official in Afghanistan's east, said 15 people were wounded in the blast and that casualties (...)
Awwal 17, 1432, Feb 20, 2011, SPA -- Afghan authorities announced today that the Taliban death toll rose to 35 in an attack by suicide bombers on Saturday against a bank in eastern Afghanistan.
During the incident, 70 were also wounded. said (...)
A NATO strike in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar killed at least 12 civilians, an official said, as President Hamid Karzai ordered a probe into the incident.
“Coalition forces had an operation last night. In one place, Nakrkhail village, (...)
At least 22 people, most of them women and children, were killed Sunday when US-led coalition air strikes hit a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan, said an Afghan district governor.
The strike, which the US military insisted killed militants, (...)
Thousands of Afghan students
chanted slogans and burned Danish and Dutch flags Sunday in
the latest in a series of protests over perceived insults
to Islam, AP reported.
The protesters in the eastern city of Jalalabad denounced
an upcoming (...)
U.S. TROOPS SHOT A SUICIDE CAR BOMBER IN AFGHANISTAN ON WEDNESDAY AS HE TRIED TO RAM HIS VEHICLE INTO THEIR CONVOY, POLICE SAID.
THE CAR BOMB EXPLODED BUT IT WAS NOT KNOWN IF ANY U.S. TROOPS WERE HURT, REUTERS REPORTED.
THE ATTACK, ON THE (...)
More than 1,000 Afghans held a peaceful protest on Sunday to demand the prosecution of people responsible for publishing cartoons depicting caricatures of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
The protesters marched through the streets of Mehtarlam, the capital (...)