TEHRAN: The main border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan was closed on Saturday following skirmishes between Iranian border guards and the Taliban forces. According to official sources, Taliban authorities in the Islam Qala district of western Afghanistan's Herat province were paving a ...

KABUL- In Afghanistan, 18 Taliban have been killed during clashes and an airstrike carried out by Afghan Air Force in Laghman and Herat provinces. The Afghan Defense Ministry said that the airstrike also destroyed a large number of weapons and ammunition of the militants. Meanwhile, Security ...

HERAT, Afghanistan - A powerful car bomb near a police station on Friday night killed at least seven people and wounded more than 50 others in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, officials said. Herat Governor Sayed Abdul Wahid Qatali said several women and children were among the dead. He ...

At least nine provinces in Afghanistan have witnessed targeted attacks, explosions and violent criminal acts in the past 48 hours, according to the statistics received by TOLOnews. The numbers show that at least 14 people were killed and 33 more wounded as a result of these attacks and acts of ...

HERAT: Two Taliban fighters who had infiltrated a base of pro-government Afghan militiamen killed 12 of them, officials and the insurgent group said Saturday. The night-time attack at a post manned by the militiamen occurred in the district of Ghorian in the western Herat province late on Friday, ...

At least 32 security force members, including public uprising forces, were killed and 25 others were wounded in Taliban attacks in several parts of the country on Wednesday night, local officials said on Thursday. In eastern Nangarhar province, at least 20 Afghan security forces, including public ...

ISLAMABAD-In Afghanistan, 45 people including civilians and Taliban were killed in airstrikes by the security forces. Governor of Adraskan District in Herat province, Ali Ahmad Faqir Yar said at least eight civilians were among the dead. He said forty-five people including Taliban were killed so ...

KABUL (AT News): At least 406 Taliban militants have surrendered to the Afghan security forces in three western provinces within one month, ministry of defense said on Tuesday. Ministry’s spokesman, Fawad Aman said that 59 Taliban fighters laid down their arms and surrendered to the Afghan ...

KABUL - Massive frauds and bogus voting has been revealed in Afghanistan presidential elections as the number of votes and the biometric verification have huge differences, Afghan media had reported. Documents from voting centers from across several provinces have revealed huge differences. In ...

In Afghanistan, four people have been killed and thirty others injured in a motorcycle bomb explosion in Herat province. The provincial public health director said the explosion occurred after an Improvised Explosive Device attached onto a motorcycle parked at the side of a road in Hajji Abbass ...