The piano notes of Richard Clayderman's "Romeo and Juliet" accompanied Taliban gunmen as they rode gold mirrored elevators to the upper floors of a luxury Kabul hotel in search of guests to kill.

Lyse Doucet's finely observed portrait of the Inter-Continental hotel opens a window on to years of upheaval in Afghanistan, from civil war to the return of the Taliban ...

Kabul, Afghanistan — The death toll from a late-night suicide bombing at a crowded wedding party in the Afghan capital rose to at least 63 on Sunday, including women and children, officials said. The ...

The radical militant group Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a nighttime attack on a wedding party in Kabul on August 17 that killed at least 63 people and left 182 others injured. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide-bomb ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — (CNN) The Taliban took credit for an explosion that targeted a Kabul, Afghanistan, hotel early Monday morning, the latest of a series of bombing attacks seeking to further ...

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing at a hotel in Kabul. Scores of people were killed or wounded in the attack, the latest in a series of operations carried out ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The suicide bomber stood in the middle of the dancing, clapping crowd as hundreds of Afghan children and adults celebrated a wedding in a joyous release from Kabul's strain of war ...