KHOST, Afghanistan, May 3 (UNHCR) - More than 1,000 internally displaced Afghans have returned to their home areas from south-eastern Khost province in a series of convoys organised by the UN refugee ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old boy execute a man who was found guilty of killing his family members as more than 80,000 people cheered on the medieval-style public spectacle. Tens of ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Security forces have arrested a seven-member gang that allegedly collected money from villagers under the ...

The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man’s claim to be 140 years old – which, if verified, would make him the oldest person ever to have lived. Aqel Nazir, who lives in the country’s eastern Khost ...

KABUL, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities will launch the construction of a new medical university in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province at a cost of more than 565 million afghanis (about 8.7 ...

ISLAMABAD — Airstrikes that Afghanistan's Taliban government blamed on neighboring Pakistan struck two eastern provinces of the country, killing at least three people, wounding seven others and ...

A man convicted of murder was publicly executed on Tuesday (Dec 2) in eastern Afghanistan. What turned eyeballs was the fact that the execution was carried out by a 13-year-old boy whose family was ...

The unprecedented audacity of Tuesday’s attack on one of the largest U.S. bases in Afghanistan reflects the growing confidence of the Taliban: Six men wearing suicide bomb-vests attempted to rush the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Tuesday accused Pakistan of launching deadly overnight strikes in three eastern provinces, but Pakistan’s military dismissed the claim and ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family. An estimated ...