Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have called for international help after a huge earthquake killed hundreds and levelled entire villages, piling further misery on the war-ravaged country that was already ...

Rescue workers yesterday scrambled to reach isolated, mountainous areas in eastern Afghanistan after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake killed more than 800 people and injured 2,500 others there. Afghan ...

Hundreds of others were injured in the quake, which struck the city of Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan.

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their ...

No matter the timekeeper, it always conveyed the same warning to the Americans: It’s later than you think ...

The long war in Afghanistan takes on a new perspective when mapped through Google Earth. In this video, we trace the key ...

No school. No work. No speaking outside. No healthcare without an increasingly scarce female provider. No dissent. No justice. This is the horrific reality for women and girls in Afghanistan since ...

A new book by the veteran correspondent Jon Lee Anderson captures a long war’s noble goals and crippling missteps.

During what commissioners described as an emotional session, about 20 veterans told their stories to members of the Afghanistan War Commission at the Veterans of Foreign Wars' annual national ...

Over four decades of war, Afghanistan wielded limited control over five major river basins that flow across its borders into downstream neighbouring nations.