A report submitted to the United Nations Security Council by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team has corroborated Pakistan's repeated stance on Afghan soil being used ...

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is operating training camps in four Afghan provinces, while Jamaat Ansarullah is ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

As President Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens ...

A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

“Everything is by force here,” said Feroza Tahiri, a midwife working at a public hospital in Nangarhar province. Despite this, “we tell them you’ll be seen like everyone else”, she sai ...

Restrictive laws imposed by the Taliban last year mean women cannot train to become doctors or midwives in Afghanistan.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Police in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province have rounded up 21 drug-addicted people recently and sent them to a rehabilitation center, provincial ...

Three convicts have been handed over Tazir punishment for having illegitimate relationships in the Koz Kunar district of eastern Nangarhar province, a statement said on . . .

The Department of Education and the Doctors Union (DU) in eastern Nangarhar province have signed an agreement on the bases of which physicians in their . . .

Mohammed had been serving a life sentence in California after being arrested "almost two decades ago" in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, the ministry said. Mohammed, who was convicted of ...

Mohammed, 55, had been detained on the battlefield in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province and later flown to California, where he was found guilty of securing heroin and opium bound for the U.S. and, in ...