At least 40 people were killed in the attack on Kabuls luxury Intercontinental Hotel at the weekend, official figures showed Thursday -- almost double the earlier toll released by Afghan authorities.

KABUL - A group of as many as four gunmen attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday night, seizing hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces ...

KABUL: A group of three or four gunmen attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday and were exchanging fire with security forces, an interior ministry spokesman said.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a security alert Saturday, saying a "series of explosions" erupted at the Intercontinental Hotel around 9 p.m. local time on Saturday.

In Kabul, for example, the recent bombing at the embassy is only the latest in a weeks-long series of bombings and rocket attacks across Kabul that have targeted the international economy—the ...

Haji Saheb Nazar, 45, an employee of Afghan Telecom, who was in the hotel for an agencywide meeting, said he was still hearing shooting even after 2 a.m. in Kabul, five hours after the attack began.

A boy carried balloons across a road in front of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, as security forces worked to clear the building of Taliban attackers.

Days before Saturday's attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, the US State Department warned of exactly such an incident. That the warning was so specific -- it noted that extremists were ...

The Kabul, the only other hotel with claim to even a single star, had been off-bounds since February 1979 when the U.S. ambassador was kidnapped and died in one of its rooms in a shoot-out between ...

Non-Afghan soldiers depart after participating in a military operation against the militants that attacked the Intercontinental hotel in Kabul on June 29, 2011. Pedro Ugarte / AFP / Getty Images ...

Afghan police sifted through one of Kabul's landmark hotels room by room on Wednesday for any more casualties or security threats after an overnight assault by Taliban suicide bombers killed 10 ...