Afghanistan

News Hour: Five female airport workers along with a driver were killed after gunmen fired bullets on their vehicle in Kandahar city, the capital of Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, on Saturday, sources said. “The firing occurred...

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

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $415 million grant to boost Afghanistan’s energy supply and strengthen the country’s cross-border trade in energy. “Insufficient energy supplies constrain growth and income opportunities that can...

News Hour: At least five people were killed and 27 others wounded in a triple bombing in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Friday, provincial officials said. There was no claim of responsibility for the three bombings...

News Hour: A massive suicide blast at a Shiite mosque in Kabul killed at least 27 people on Monday and wounded 35 as worshippers gathered for a religious ceremony, officials said. “It was a suicide bomber...

News Hour: A suicide bomber on foot struck a government vehicle in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 10 others, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The...

News Hour: The US military confirmed on Friday it had killed Al-Qaeda’s emir for northeastern Afghanistan during an air strike last month, in a major blow to the group as it seeks to re-establish safe havens...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $25.5 million grant to boost maintenance work on sections of Afghanistan’s regional highway in the southeastern part of the country and enhance the overall sustainability of...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a $26 million grant and the administration of a $50 million grant from the European Union to enhance crop diversification and food security by improving irrigated agriculture in...

News Hour: The Pentagon on Thursday identified the two Americans killed in Afghanistan earlier this week as a US Army sergeant and a civilian employee of the army. They were Sergeant Douglas Riney, 26, and Michael...