So far Qasaba’s comfortable new apartment blocks on the edge of Afghanistan’s capital city have been less vulnerable to Taliban attacks than downtown areas. Kabul residents who can afford it ...

At least one person was killed in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul in a firing incident outside a United Nations compound, officials said on Monday. More follows The Independent is the world ...

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Share full article Portraits of American service members killed in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate at Kabul’s airport, displayed in the Capitol last year.Credit...Will Oliver/EPA ...

While authorities claim the surveillance network is intended to combat crime, critics warn it could be used to enforce the Taliban’s strict morality codes under Sharia law.

The Taliban's early victories were followed by a series of defeats, as their efforts to take the western city of Herat and the capital Kabul in early 1995 resulted in heavy losses. It was at this ...

The film is a sobering, intimate and warm account of daily life in Kabul during the silent intervals between suicide bombings. The bombings that happened, and those that will, define life for the ...

On the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, some residents in the capital Kabul have urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) ...

'Rewrite the textbooks': We've been wrong about what causes sunburn, experts say ...

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