King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued to distribute food and shelter aid to the neediest families in Afghanistan.
KSrelief on Wednesday distributed 154 tons and 500 kilograms of aid, including 2,400 food baskets, (...)
Taliban fighters launched a three-pronged attack on parts of the central-eastern Afghan city of Ghazni overnight, driving a Humvee packed with explosives into the entrance of a district governor's compound during the assault, police said on (...)
Around 2,000 members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority held an angry protest on Tuesday after militants killed seven members of their community at the weekend and dumped their partially beheaded bodies.
The killing of the seven Hazara, (...)
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed on Tuesday the deputy governor of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, Mohammad Kazim Allahyar, and five other people, a top police official said.
Allahyar, his son and two bodyguards were killed instantly when the (...)
Afghan provincial
authorities on Sunday were investigating reports that 20
private security guards were killed in a U.S.-led coalition air
strike southwest of Kabul, two officials said.
U.S.-led forces called in the air strike to fend off (...)
Taliban insurgents
seized a remote Afghan town overnight, patrolling the streets
for some hours before withdrawing ahead of a government
operation to retake it on Friday, residents and officials said.
Ghazni province where the attack took place (...)
Taliban militants have resumed face-to-face talks with South Korean officials on the fate
of 19 Korean volunteers held captive since July, a
spokesman for the militants said Tuesday.
An Associated Press reporter in the central town of Ghazni
saw (...)
Taliban militants in
Afghanistan agreed to release 19 South Korean church
volunteers held captive since July 19, a spokesman for the
insurgents and the South Korean government said Tuesday.
Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, said South (...)
The Taliban will hold a new
round of face-to-face talks with South Korean officials on
Thursday to discuss the 19 church volunteers still held by
the group in Afghanistan, a spokesman said, according to AP.
Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to (...)
A Taliban spokesman said Saturday that two sick, female South Korean hostages would be released "soon" for the sake of good relations between the Taliban and South Korea.
The spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the two women would be freed because (...)
A Taliban leader taking part in hostage negotiations for the lives of 21 South Koreans said Saturday that the hostages would «definitely» be released and possibly as soon as «today or tomorrow.»
Mullah Qari Bashir said that face-to-face (...)
A Taliban spokesman said
Saturday the militants will release two sick, female South
Korean hostages «soon» for the sake of good relations
with South Korea, but international Red Cross and Afghan
officials could not confirm the claim, according (...)
A group of 75 Taliban insurgents tried to overrun a U.S.-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a rare frontal attack that left more than 20 of them dead, the coalition said in a statement.
The insurgents attacked Firebase Anaconda (...)
Police discovered the body of a second South Korean hostage Tuesday slain by the Taliban in central Afghanistan, while relatives of the remaining captives pleaded for the United States to help to resolve the crisis.
The Taliban, meanwhile, (...)
