A suicide bomber tried to assassinate a prominent female member of Afghanistan's parliament, killing three people and wounding the lawmaker, a senior official said.
Millions of Muslims across the world marked on Tuesday Tenth of Muharram anniversary which is that of the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson, Imam Hussein (pbuh).
Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 22 soldiers and police,an official told Reuters.
Afghan security forces on Saturday fought back against a major Taliban offensive in the east of the country after the militants killed up to 100 security personnel and civilians, beheading 12 of them, officials said.
A deal to form a government of national unity in Afghanistan has been signed at a ceremony in Kabul.
An Afghan soldier has shot dead a trainer serving with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and injured another in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat.
Several Taliban militants, including suicide bombers, launched coordinated attacks in Torkham, a border town, in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The US military has claimed that its Iraq operations has cost an average of $7.5 million per day since they began in mid-June under the pretext of action against ISIL Takfiri terrorist though no significant effort has emerged.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights strongly condemns the UN Security Council for placing "geopolitical considerations" above the "collective interest."
An internal US intelligence memo has warned against the release of a Senate report on CIA’s torture tactics in the interrogation of suspected terrorist from Muslim nations, insisting that the move could further inflame anti-American feelings in the Mideast and lead to potentially violent street protests and threats to US embassies and personnel.
An American major general has been shot to death in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals.
Three in four Americans think history will judge the US wars on Iraq and Afghanistan as failures, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll which also shows that nearly the same percentage think it was right to pull US troops out of the two nations.
Since 2001, the US has undertaken regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya; all 3 countries are now in chaos and extremists are more in control than ever.
Militants have set fire to hundreds of fuel tanker trucks in a parking lot on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, witnesses said Saturday.
The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks has made a rare foray into public life to warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more.
Around 60 people have been killed in flash floods in northern Afghanistan, officials said further warning that the death toll is expected to climb.
Three Turkish engineers have been killed and another wounded in eastern Afghanistan as a suicide bomber attacked their vehicle in Nangarhar province, local authorities said.
Top American officials have defended a prisoner swap deal with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, describing it as a new opening to the terrorist group fighting the Afghan government and the same group that Washington claimed it invaded the country to root out.
Fourteen civilians have been killed when a roadside bomb ripped through their minivan vehicles in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
Pakistani civil society figures have urged the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to train and deploy Pakistani extremists to fight against the Syrian government.