Badakhshan
Badakhshan is a mountainous region divided between northeastern Afghanistan and the republic of Tajikistan. China borders both units to the north.
Once part of the ancient Greek kingdom of ...
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Kabul (dpa) - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed
nearly a police headquarters in relatively peaceful northern
Afghanistan on Thursday morning, killing one civi...
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Kabul (dpa) - At least 15 people, 11 of them security personnel,
have been killed in two separate attacks by Taliban fighters in
northern and western Af...
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Kabul (dpa) - Heavy floods in 19 provinces of Afghanistan left at
least 91 people dead and 49 other injured in the past five days,
while avalanches in northern Afghanistan h...
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Kabul (dpa) - Three Afghan soldiers and an engineer were killed
Wednesday in two separate roadside bomb attacks in south-eastern
Afghan province of Paktia, officials reporte...
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Kabul (dpa) - Three soldiers serving in the NATO-led International
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have died and 15 were injured in
four incidents in Afghanistan, the ISAF ...
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Kabul (dpa) - Four policemen, including a district police chief,
were killed by a remote-controlled bomb detonated by Taliban
insurgents in Afghanistan's the ...
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Kabul (dpa) - Four police officers including a district police
chief were killed and three injured when Taliban insurgents detonated
a remote-controlled bomb ...
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Cologne, Germany (dpa) - The bodies of three German soldiers
killed in a suicide bombing were formally handed to their families
Wednesday before a poignant memorial service ...
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Cologne, Germany (dpa) - Germany mourned Wednesday three of its
soldiers killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, with Defence
Minister Franz Josef Jung said they had bee...
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