#afghanistan

The recently signed agreement is unlikely to advance the country's long-term national interests.

KABUL, June 1 (IPS) - While Afghanistan faces a serious shortage of female doctors, the country's Islamist regime has placed restrictions on female students from graduating, further exacerbating the situation. Female medical graduates are barred from ...

Families in Gaza living on or near the so-called Yellow Line controlled by the Israeli military have told the UN they live in constant fear of being killed or injured.

22 people have been killed and 36 others injured when a truck carrying recently returned Afghan refugees overturned ...

The passengers were among thousands of Afghans who recently returned from Pakistan, which is pursuing a crackdown on migrants from the country.

An Afghan Taliban official says a truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan has overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 18 people, most of them women and children.

Truck was carrying Afghan families returning Pakistan when it overturned, official says ...

The truck was carrying Afghan families returning home from Pakistan.

Russia and Afghanistan's Taliban government reportedly signed a military cooperation pact, solidifying Moscow's growing alliance in Central Asia.

Newly released evidence from inquiry into 80 deaths shows Afghan partner forces no longer willing to work alongside British by 2011 ...