Afghanistan

India beat Afghanistan 2-1 to win 2015 SAFF Championship title

India seize to a 2-1 win over Afghanistan after extra time to win the 2015 SAFF Championship final at the Trivandrum International Stadium in Kerala.
3 January 2016, 15:46 PM

Inzamam-Prabhakar combo works for Afghanistan

Inzamam-ul-Haq and Manoj Prabhakar's appointments as the head coach and bowling coach of Afghanistan seemed to have hit off already with great results on the field.
1 January 2016, 05:25 AM

Pride at stake for Bangladesh, Bhutan: SAFF Championship

The group stage of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship 2015 ends on Monday, with the first of the two fixtures featuring the bottom two sides's of Group B, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
28 December 2015, 07:04 AM

Bin Laden's former bodyguard Nasser al-Bahri dies

Nasser al-Bahri - Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard - has died after a long illness, medical sources in Yemen have told the BBC.
28 December 2015, 04:44 AM

Northern Afghanistan hit by 6.3-magnitude earthquake

A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Afghanistan, with tremors felt as far away as India, injuring 17 people.
26 December 2015, 05:31 AM

Battered booters brace for Maldives challenge

Trivandrum is in a festive mood. The capital of Kerala, a major tourist attraction with the famous Kovalam beach a few kilometres from the city centre, is also known for its communal harmony and iconic religious landmarks. The city has a notable Catholic Christian community, who are celebrating Christmas with great fervour.
25 December 2015, 10:46 AM

Afghan Taliban: Helmand town police HQ ‘under siege’

The police HQ in the strategic Afghan town of Sangin remains under siege after a Taliban attack, officials say.
22 December 2015, 07:03 AM

Afghan official makes plea to president via Facebook

A deputy governor in Afghanistan sends a highly unusual public Facebook message to the president to plead for assistance in fighting the Taliban.
20 December 2015, 10:33 AM

Once upon a time in Afghanistan…

Presently, Afghanistan is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman, bit it was not always such a repressive country. Photographs from the 1950s and 60s depict a very different Afghanistan.
14 December 2015, 12:20 PM

Taliban attack near Spanish embassy in Afghanistan kills 6

An Afghan official says that at least six people have been killed in Taliban attack near the Spanish embassy in the capital, Kabul.
12 December 2015, 04:24 AM

ICC T20 World Cup 2016 schedule announced

The International Cricket Council (ICC) announces the groups and schedule of the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016, which will be staged across eight venues in India from March 8 to April 3, 2016.
11 December 2015, 11:56 AM

Afghan Taliban attack on Kandahar ‘leaves 46 dead’

At least 46 security personnel, Taliban fighters and civilians have been killed in clashes in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.
9 December 2015, 04:49 AM

US warns of 'imminent' attack in Afghan capital

The US Embassy says it has received "credible reports of an imminent attack" in the Afghan capital.
1 December 2015, 05:59 AM

Kunduz strike ‘was US human error’

A US aircraft attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz because of "human error", a US military inquiry says.
25 November 2015, 15:29 PM

Afghan Taliban seize 13 soldiers after helicopter crash

At least 13 soldiers are captured by the Taliban after a helicopter crash landed in Afghanistan, killing three of those on board.
25 November 2015, 05:17 AM

Australia minister rejects MP's call for Middle East refugee ban

Australia's immigration minister rejects a call by an MP to close its borders to refugees from the Middle East, in the wake of the Paris attacks
16 November 2015, 14:24 PM

Clinton urges war on IS, not Muslims

White House hopeful Hillary Clinton calls for global unity to crush the Islamic State group, as the carnage in Paris took center stage at Saturday's Democratic presidential debate.
15 November 2015, 04:44 AM

Migrant crisis: Bulgaria accused of brutality by Oxfam

The Bulgarian authorities are accused of brutality towards migrants in a new report sponsored by the British charity Oxfam.
13 November 2015, 11:59 AM

Once a refugee, now a cabinet minister

Canada’s newest democratic institutions minister is a 30-year-old woman who fled Afghanistan with her widowed mother and two sisters when she was a child.
5 November 2015, 13:47 PM

Afghan cosmonaut stuck in orbit

Here is what happened to Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan's only cosmonaut, who was travelling back to earth with a Russian commander in 1988 with enough oxygen for just 24 hours.
3 November 2015, 08:59 AM