NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with George Washington University's Andrew Mines on what the suicide blast at a mosque in Afghanistan which killed dozens says about the Taliban's ability to maintain security.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during Wednesday's funeral for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people, and the local governor ...

KABUL - Taliban gunmen burst into a mosque and gunned down the deputy mayor of Kandahar at his prayers, officials said Tuesday. The brazen attack underscored the immense challenges facing Western ...

At least 16 people were killed and 32 injured after an explosion hit a Shia mosque in Kandahar during Friday prayers, a doctor at a hospital in the Afghan city told CNN. The doctor, who preferred to ...

RIYADH, July 16 (KUNA) -- The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned a recent bomb attack a Mosque in Kandahar in which a senior Afghan cleric was killed along with three others ...