ISLAMABAD-A mortar shell fired by the Taliban struck a house in a village in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing five children from the same family, an official said. The mortar strike happened in a village in Dwamanda district of Khost province, which borders Pakistan, said Talib Mangal, a ...

KABUL: Top US official reacts over incident of massive "Bacha Bazi" against 500 Afghan children. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and central Asia has called on the Afghan officials to take “decisive actions” regarding the alleged pedophile ring, which according to reports have been ...

ISLAMABAD - State Minister for States, Frontier Regions (SAFRON) and Narcotics Control, Shehryar Afridi on Wednesday inaugurated school at Afghan Basti, aimed at imparting education to the children of Afghan refugees. Talking to media persons on the occasion, the State Minister said the ...

KABUL: At least eight children have been killed and six wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province. Police in the Shirin Tagab district blamed the Taliban for planting a mine in the area, which fell into the group's control last week. The children were playing near a police ...

United Nations: The United Nations’ Children's Fund (UNICEF) says that ongoing conflict, poverty and discrimination have left nearly half of children in Afghanistan out-of- schools. A UNICEF report released today said that worsening security seen in recent years, and engrained poverty and ...

KABUL - UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan Toby Lanzer on Thursday said that the organization had been in touch with members of the Taliban about conducting the polio vaccination campaign in Shahwalikot district of southern Kandahar province. According to reports, thousands of children ...

KABUL - US Forces have opened fire on the children in Afghanistan throwing stones at military vehicle.  Two of the eight pupils at a school on the outskirts of the city of Jalalabad in the Nangarhar Province were injured in the alleged shooting, its head teacher told RT’s Ruptly news ...

The United Nations says the number of children killed in Afghanistan's conflict rose by 25 percent last year.United Nations Mission in Afghanistan in a report released on Monday attributed this increase to left-over or discarded munitions.According to report, 923 children were killed in Afghanistan ...