An official US report on human trafficking places Pakistan, Afghanistan and India among the countries where men, women and children are subjected to forced labour and sex-trafficking.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed suggestions that his country could descend into the same chaos as Iraq when US-led troops pull out and leave the national police and army to impose security.
Afghan officials said Tuesday that five NATO soldiers who were killed in the south of the country died in a "friendly fire" error during an air strike.
US Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at an American military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape, a senior US official said on Sunday.
More than 80 bodies have been found two days after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan's mountainous and remote north, a provincial official said Sunday, as police and villagers scoured the rugged terrain for missing people and Army helicopters flew in supplies to thousands left homeless.
Three Turkish construction workers were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police building in eastern Nangarhar province, a local police chief said
US forces will complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, President Barack Obama has said, unveiling a plan to end America's longest war.
Afghanistan's presidential election results will be announced Thursday after authorities completed fraud investigations into the first round of voting to find a successor to Hamid Karzai as the war-torn country enters a new era.
Afghan election front-runner Abdullah Abdullah received a major boost to his campaign Sunday when Zalmai Rassoul, a close ally of the current president, endorsed him after withdrawing from the race.
A frontrunner to succeed Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said his one time rival should continue to serve a role in politics and that he wouldn't pursue "vengeance" against the man he claims stole the last election.
Russian Central Election Commission's representatives, who monitored presidential elections in Afghanistan on April 5, highly evaluated efforts of the Afghan authorities concerning security provision during the polls.
Tehran, YJC. A group of American lawmakers is pressuring Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a controversial bilateral security agreement with the United States.
President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that he is now planning a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's continued refusal to sign a security pact.
UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres visits Iran on Monday for talks with officials on the plight of hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees, the UNHCR said in a statement.
Scores of alleged Taliban fighters walked free from jail in Afghanistan on Thursday, triggering condemnation from the United States which said they were responsible for killing NATO and Afghan soldiers as well as civilians.
The United States will unveil $300 million Monday in new aid initiatives for Afghanistan for the impoverished nation as the war economy winds down and global troops withdraw, a US official said.