Rahmanullah Gurbaz wanted to play cricket so badly that he got himself a secret job and used his earnings to buy a bat only ...

The fast-paced equestrian game of buzkashi is a welcome distraction in rural Afghanistan, blighted by drought and poverty, ...

Following a deadly ambush on a Pakistan convoy bringing supplies to Kurram, a region bordering Afghanistan, social media ...

An Afghan government spokesperson says a blast at a ministry compound in Kabul has killed one person and injured three.

A suicide bomber killed one person and wounded three in an attack near government offices in Kabul on Thursday, an official spokesman said, the second explosion in Afghanistan this week.

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As night settles over Afghanistan's capital, only a few small lights and neon signs pierce the darkness and thick blanket of ...

Almost two centuries later in 2025, US President Donald Trump has suggested a similar mass exodus for the 2.3 million ...

In a country where women are banned from talking loudly in public and even looking out of the windows, one of the few female ...

Family, friends and journalists gathered at a memorial service at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street to pay tribute to The Independent’s World Affairs Editor ...

Calls have been growing for England to boycott their upcoming cricket match with Afghanistan over the Taliban's repression of ...

Dot (male) and Opie (female) are a 3-year-old bonded pair that were adopted from Pets Bring Joy in 2021 until the ...