Afghanistan

News Hour: A massive Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul on early Monday, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years, reports...

News Hour: Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai was elated after an impressive all-round effort against the Netherlands saw his team reach the top spot in the ICC Intercontinental Cup points table, but cautioned that more needed to...

News Hour: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned twin bomb attacks by the Islamic State group that ripped through crowds of minority Shiite Hazaras in the Afghan capital, killing at least 80, reports BSS. “Afghanistan...

News Hour: Funerals have taken place in Kabul for victims of Saturday’s suicide bomb attack claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), which killed 80 people. Bodies were still being collected from morgues as the first burials were...

News Hour: German police shot dead a 17-year-old Afghan refugee on Monday after he attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife, seriously wounding four in what one official said was a “probable” Islamist attack,...

News Hour: Eight Taliban insurgents have been killed and a few others injured as clashes erupted in Darayem district of the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan on Thursday, an army spokesman Nasratullah Jamshidi said, reports BSS....

News Hour: Ireland will have to defeat Afghanistan by a margin of 4-1 or better in the upcoming five-game series if it hopes to overtake its Asian rival in the MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings....

News Hour: At the Girls’ Education Forum in London, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a commitment of $25 million through Let Girls Learn to help sustain a teacher apprenticeship program in Afghanistan for...

News Hour: President Barack Obama put the brakes on the US pullout from Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying 8,400 troops will remain in the war-ravaged country into next year to tackle the threat from a resurgent Taliban,...

News Hour: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Fund signed a US$8.7 million grant to scale up HIV prevention measures and treatment for people most at risk of contracting the virus in Afghanistan,...