TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): At least 25 Taliban have been killed and 11 others wounded during a ground and air operation in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Wednesday. Gen Rahmat Shah Qemati, the Afghan National Army’s fourth brigade commander...

KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): The Taliban have forced telecom companies into suspending their services at nighttime in northern Kunduz province, local officials said on Wednesday. The Taliban also confirmed the ban on telecom services at night. A security...

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Daesh militants have killed two brothers over having links with government and gunmen have killed a couple in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Wednesday. Police Chief Maj. Gen. Jummah Gul Hemat told Pajhwok Afghan News...

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Gunmen shot dead a father and his two minor children as young as four years old in Qaisar district of northern Faryab province, an official said on Tuesday. Nizamuddin Qaisari, Qaisar district police chief, said the incident took...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Second vice-president Sarwar Danish on Tuesday said a policy to ensure security of religious centers has recently been approved by the National Security Council (NSC) and would be enforced over the next two years. Danish, who...

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Fourteen militants and three civilians have been killed in security forces operation in Lalak and Zark areas situated between the Khakrez and Ghorak districts of southern Kandahar province, an official said Tuesday. Police...

KABUL (Pajhwok): More than 3,000 additional US troops are their way to Afghanistan in line with President Donald Trump's new strategy, media reports said on Tuesday. Defense Secretary James Mattis told a news conference at the Pentagon he had signed...

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Local officials confirmed on Tuesday the fall of three security posts and a bazaar of the Kohistan district of northwestern Faryab province to the Taliban . Ghaibullah Mirzad, commander of Afghan forces and uprising groups in the...

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): A 19-year-old girl has allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself inside her home in the Pashtunkot district of northwestern Faryab province, a security official said on Monday. The security official, who wished to go unnamed...