The police HQ in the strategic Afghan town of Sangin remains under siege after a Taliban attack, officials say.

A deputy governor in Afghanistan sends a highly unusual public Facebook message to the president to plead for assistance in fighting the Taliban.

Presently, Afghanistan is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman, bit it was not always such a repressive country. Photographs from the 1950s and 60s depict a very different Afghanistan.

An Afghan official says that at least six people have been killed in Taliban attack near the Spanish embassy in the capital, Kabul.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) announces the groups and schedule of the ICC World Twenty20 India 2016, which will be staged across eight venues in India from March 8 to April 3, 2016.

At least 46 security personnel, Taliban fighters and civilians have been killed in clashes in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

The US Embassy says it has received "credible reports of an imminent attack" in the Afghan capital.

A US aircraft attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz because of "human error", a US military inquiry says.

At least 13 soldiers are captured by the Taliban after a helicopter crash landed in Afghanistan, killing three of those on board.

Australia's immigration minister rejects a call by an MP to close its borders to refugees from the Middle East, in the wake of the Paris attacks

White House hopeful Hillary Clinton calls for global unity to crush the Islamic State group, as the carnage in Paris took center stage at Saturday's Democratic presidential debate.

The Bulgarian authorities are accused of brutality towards migrants in a new report sponsored by the British charity Oxfam.

Canada’s newest democratic institutions minister is a 30-year-old woman who fled Afghanistan with her widowed mother and two sisters when she was a child.

Here is what happened to Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan's only cosmonaut, who was travelling back to earth with a Russian commander in 1988 with enough oxygen for just 24 hours.

Fourteen-year-old Aziza Rahimzada is trying to help her impoverished community by offering classes to children.

The migrants taking refuge in Europe have extraordinary stories to tell. One of the most fascinating is the tale of 105 year old Bibihal Uzbeki, who traveled 20 days to reach Croatia from Afghanistan — mostly on foot.

Afghanistan and Pakistan were scrambling Wednesday to rush aid to survivors of this week's magnitude-7.5 earthquake as the region's overall death toll from the quake rose to 385.

The Taliban seize Afghanistan's Darqad district, one of those hit by Monday's earthquake that killed at least 360 in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Bangladesh went down two positions to 174 in the international ranking of World Bank’s (WB) Ease of Doing Business 2016 report.

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan kill seven Pakistani soldiers at a checkpost in the troubled tribal area of South Waziristan, the army said.