Afghans wait outside a hospital in Kabul for news of friends and family injured in a Taliban attack (AFP Photo/ABDUL SHAHMIM TANHA)/ At least four people were killed and a dozen injured when gunmen stormed a crowded government building in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday following a suicide ...
Speaking to the BBC, Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai defended the group's role in bloodshed across the country in recent weeks/ Speaking to the BBC, Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai defended the group's role in bloodshed across the country in recent weeks (AFP Photo/KARIM JAAFAR)/ The ...
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan — Fearing Taliban threats, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has mostly campaigned for re-election via Skype, reaching voters outside Kabul through “virtual rallies.” But on Tuesday, the president risked a 35-mile trip from the capital to neighboring Parwan Province for ...
JALALABAD/KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber and gunmen wounded at least nine people, including a child and a woman, in an attack on a government building in eastern Afghan on Wednesday, officials said./ FILE PHOTO: Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no more than 20 minutes to study a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban on pulling thousands of U.S. troops out of his country, but upcoming elections could put him back at the heart of talks to end decades of war./ FILE PHOTO: Afghan ...
President Trump calls off peace negotiations with the Taliban after the group admits to a deadly attack in Afghanistan; Benjamin Hall reports./ Tuesday, killing at least 48 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest single day since a peace agreement with Taliban insurgents was declared dead./ ...
Afghan police inspect the site of the suicide attack in Parwan province - AP/ Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts Tuesday - one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul - with The first attack saw a motorcyclist detonate a ...
Election commission workers prepare ballot boxes and election materials for the presidential election scheduled for Sept 28, at the Independent Election Commission compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Afghan officials say around 100,000 members of the country's security forces ...
Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani gestures during his election campaign rally in Kabul/ KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no more than 20 minutes to study a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban on pulling thousands of U.S. troops out of his country, ...
Iran held talks with a delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a week after peace talks between the United States and the Islamist insurgents collapsed. Iran said in December it had been meeting with Taliban representatives with the knowledge of the Afghan ...
Iran held talks with a delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a week after peace talks between the United States and the Islamist insurgents collapsed./ FILE PHOTO - Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C, ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. service member was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said, after the collapse of talks between the United States and Taliban to end the nearly 18-year old war. It said the service member was killed in action but did not ...
05PM [Updated: Wed Sep 18, 2019 03:05PM ]/ The file photo shows Head of the Political Office of the Taliban Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai speaking at a conference arranged by the Afghan diaspora in Moscow, Russia, February 5, 2019. (By Reuters)/ The Taliban says its “doors are open” to resuming ...
Afghan security forces keep watch at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 17, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)/ An explosion has hit a campaign rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the country’s northern province of Parwan, leaving at least two dozen people dead. Wahida ...
36PM [Updated: Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:36PM ]/ Members of Taliban's Qatar-based political bureau have visited Tehran and held talks with Iranian officials on the latest developments of the Afghan peace process, including the breakdown of US-Taliban negotiations. The delegation has reportedly ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Nada Tawfik in New York explains what happened when Netanyahu spoke/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fiercely defended his country's military campaigns in Iran, Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East in a speech to ...
Reconstruction has yet to begin in Gaza almost a year after a ceasefire came into force/ US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has announced a $2.45bn (£1.85bn) Gaza recovery plan at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The funding will be spread across 66 programmes over ...
President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran will never "bend the knee" after almost seven months of war with the US and Israel, but is ready for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. Responding to US President Donald Trump's threat to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached ...
Iran must "end its arming of and support" for the Houthis in Yemen, the foreign ministers of G7 nations have said in a joint statement. The G7 also condemned "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, adding that the recent escalation in fighting against Saudi-backed pro-government ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Thick black plumes of smoke rise from near Riyadh's international airport/ Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and ballistic missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as energy sites ...
Locals said 10 families had been living in the building despite warnings that it was unsafe/ At least 12 people have been killed, including children, and dozens are missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip, according to local rescue teams. Video footage shows the search ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ FILE - Fighters from the Badr Brigades Shiite militia clash with an Islamic State militant group at the front line on the outskirts of Fallujah in the Anbar province of Iraq, June 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)/ FILE - ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ President Donald Trump greets Lee Greenwood at the Republican convention, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)/ on Monday nominated the wife of "God Bless the USA" singer Lee Greenwood to ...
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were given the Special Jury Award at the Venice International Film Festival/ Israel's culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli co-directors of Naza, a documentary that accuses the Israeli army of mass civilian killings in Gaza, to be stripped of ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ How Houthi gains in Yemen could drive up oil prices/ Saudi Arabia has closed a critical oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones launched from Iraq, as conflict in the Middle East widens. Iraq said it had fired a military ...