An affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for this week’s attack in which 10 Afghans working for a mine-clearance organization were shot and killed and 16 others wounded.
With rising infections and mounting death toll, a third wave of COVID infections could overwhelm Afghanistan already reeling from the precipitous withdrawal of foreign forces.
A group of 42 rejected asylum seekers have reportedly arrived in Kabul after being deported from Germany.
At least 10 Afghans working for a mine-clearance nongovernmental organization have been killed in an attack in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan.
Afghan authorities chopped down poppies in Badakhshan Province amid a new drive to eliminate sources of the opium and heroin trade. But past efforts to replace poppies have faltered as farmers say they can't survive on what they earn from alternative crops.
Three Afghans and three Iranians will be part of a refugee team of 29 athletes competing across 12 sports at next month's Tokyo Olympics.
The Taliban has captured another district center in Afghanistan, adding to the insurgent group's recent military gains since the start of the withdrawal of international troops from the war-torn country.
Human Rights Watch is urging countries with troops departing Afghanistan to accelerate programs to resettle the Afghan staff who served with them during two decades of war.
At least 11 civilians, including three children, have been killed in northwest Afghanistan when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, officials said on June 6.
At least 14 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed and another 18 wounded in a Taliban attack in Qaisar district of the northern province of Faryab, local officials said on June 6.
Taliban militants launched an attack against Afghan security forces in the northern province of Baghlan on June 5, killing at least eight people, according to a security official.
An Afghan news anchor was killed in a blast in western Kabul, the latest of a series of attacks on journalists in the country.
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