FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Taliban insurgents captured the Maimay district of northeastern Badakhshan province after an hours-long clash with security forces, the town’s administrative head said on Thursday. Kambir Qurbani told Pajhwok Afghan News the...

KABUL (Pajhwok): A Taliban -fired mortar shell has killed seven civilians in northern Kunduz province, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. A statement from the ministry said the Taliban-fired mortar struck a civilian house in the provincial...

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): The Taliban have kidnapped the rural development director for eastern Nuristan province along with three of his subordinates in Kunar province, officials said on Thursday. Kunar police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan told Pajhwok...

AIBAK (Pajhwok): Police in northern Samangan province have detained a would-be suicide bomber, an official said on Wednesday.

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Taj Bibi, a resident of eastern Kunar province, says if the Taliban embrace peace, she is ready to forgive them for killing her three husbands.

KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Most areas of Dasht-i-Archi district of northern Kunduz province have been recaptured from Taliban insurgents during an Afghan forces operation, with the rebels sustaining heavy casualties, officials said Sunday. A day earlier...

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): At least ten local police personnel have been killed including their commander in a Taliban attack in Juram district northeastern Badakhshan, sources said on Tuesday. Ahmad Javed Mujaddedi, a member of the Provincial Council,...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some police officers appeared in the entry test for different vacancies at the country’s ports, but after passing the examination, 13 candidates were referred to their previous posts and nine introduced to Faal Ehtyat without being active grade employees.

HEART CITY (Pajhwok): At least seven railways security guards were injured in a bomb blast on the Herat-Islam Qala highway in western Herat province on Monday.