KABUL, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghan counter-narcotics police have smashed poppy farms on 180 acres of land, and arrested three people in south Afghanistan's Helmand province, provincial police spokesman ...

KABUL, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan interim government's Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled Affairs announced on Friday that more than 653,000 families of widows, orphans, and disabled individuals ...

Winston Churchill famously described Soviet Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma". This characterisation also fits modern Afghanistan, as amply demonstrated by repeated failures ...

With the return of former American Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalizad to negotiations in Afghanistan and the Trump ...

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the ...

The former Soviet Union fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with Moscow withdrawing its troops in 1989. Since then ...

Karzai’s influence is not just historical; it lies in his ability to mediate Afghanistan’s current power struggles.

It is the latest phase of a nationwide crackdown launched in 2023 to expel foreigners living in Pakistan illegally, mostly Afghans.

The United States has removed multimillion-dollar bounties on leaders of Afghanistan's feared Haqqani militant network, ...

The move was a significant shift toward leaders of the Haqqani network, which was behind some of the deadliest attacks during ...