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.

As global acceptance of Taliban rule grows, the U.K.'s blunder, which got allies killed, should be a warning to the United ...

Kabul: Afghan police have foiled an attempt to smuggle 2,400 sheep out of the southern Kandahar province and abroad, the ...

Thousands of Afghans approved for resettlement in Germany remain stranded in Pakistan, leaving them in limbo. Some report being harassed by Pakistani authorities.

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.

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.

Pakistani cities deal with flood waters amid heavy monsoon rains, while Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk knocks out Britain's Daniel ...

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 ...

KABUL, June 6 (Reuters) - The deputy governor of Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday, the provincial spokesperson said. "Nissar Ahmad Ahmadi, with his ...

The three cities — Pul-i-Khumri, roughly 150 miles north of Kabul in Baghlan Province; Farah, the capital of the western province of the same name; and Faizabad, in remote and rugged Badakhshan ...