KABUL, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A total of 44 grooms and brides tied the knot at a mass wedding event in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, the state-owned Bakhtar News Agency reported on Friday.

Afghan counter-narcotics police have discovered 57 kg of opium and arrested a suspected drug smuggler in Badakhshan province, ...

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! A suicide bomber targeted a memorial service in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, officials said.

The geographic and social conditions that make Badakhshan difficult for the Taliban to control also make it difficult for any widespread unrest to spill out from the region.

He said: “Abdul Waris, son of Damla Nasruddin, was killed in a clash between miners of gold washing workshops belonging to Damla Nasruddin and prosecutor Mohammad Hashim in Aweez village of ...

The province is some 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. It is a rural, mountainous area, home to only several thousand people.

Deadly attacks on Taliban officials in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan Province have left residents fearful of even going to the mosque. As the Taliban claims success in rooting out Islamic ...

The video clip shows guerilla fighters in the Badakhshan Province, whose leaders are pledging loyalty to the National Resistance Front and its leader Ahmad Massoud, while declaring a guerilla war ...

Tajikistan has taken in more than 1,000 civilian refugees fleeing the violence in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province across the border, the government of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan province said ...

The Seday-e-Banowan [Women’s Voice] radio station in the northeast province of Banakhshan has resumed its broadcasts after officials shut it down for a week for playing music during the holy month of ...

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- The economic fortunes of Badakhshan province, a remote and wildly beautiful corner of far northeastern Afghanistan, have risen and fallen over the past seven years with ...