Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have asked television broadcasters to ensure that female presenters on local stations cover their faces when on air, an official said yesterday.

Militants launches two separate attacks on Afghan security installations killing dozens of soldiers, the latest in a series of devastating assaults this week that have left more than 120 people dead and underscored spiralling insecurity.

A six-year-old Afghan boy, who shot to Internet fame by sporting a Lionel Messi shirt made out of a plastic bag, fulfills his dreams by meeting the Argentine soccer great.

Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world's most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to do so has exasperated Afghanistan, country of his birth eight centuries ago.

A suicide bomber kills at least nine people outside a police station in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.

An Afghan policeman, suspected of collaborating with insurgents, drug and then shoot dead 10 of his colleagues in the southern province of Uruzgan, officials say.

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan kill seven Pakistani soldiers at a checkpost in the troubled tribal area of South Waziristan, the army said.

At least nine people are killed in a militant attack on a sports match in Afghanistan's turbulent eastern Paktika province.

The Afghan Taliban have confirmed covering up their former leader Mullah Omar's death for more than two years.

Taliban ambush on Afghan Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum's convoy on a remote highway is successfully beaten back.

Seventy Afghan and Iraqi migrants have been rescued from a packed boat off the southeastern coast of Italy and brought to shore on Sunday

Thousands of Afghans have lived for decades in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta). Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz captured the stories of this little-known community.

Pakistan's military warplanes has pounded a militant hideout in a troubled tribal region along the Afghan border, killing 22 "terrorists."

16 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Khost,

A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a district police headquarters close to Afghanistan's presidential palace in central Kabul killing at least seven people and wounding 22

A US drone strike kills at least nine Pakistani militants in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province