The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

A divided U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said HSBC Holdings Plc was not liable to the families of two American contractors killed in an al-Qaeda suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan, after the bank allegedly evaded U.S. sanctions targeting sponsors of terrorism.

Authorities in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktia said girls' high schools had opened in recent days, though the move had not been officially approved.

Follow all the action from Dubai International Cricket Stadium

Two earthquakes shook Afghanistan on Tuesday, with one killing six people in the northeast of the country, officials said.

Human Rights Watch says Taliban is failing to protect Shia minority from violent attacks on mosques, schools and workplaces

The Saudi Foreign Ministry condemned on Monday the terrorist attack on the Russian Embassy in the capital of Afghanistan that left several people dead and others injured. The Ministry affirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia rejects all forms of terrorism targeting innocent people and diplomatic missions everywhere.

Russia is one of the few countries to have maintained an embassy in Kabul after the Taliban took over more than a year ago.

A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one civilian, a local police official and a Russian state news agency said. It was unclear if the attacker detonated the explosives himself or whether…

Newly elected opposition MPs Keith Wolahan and Henry Pike have given their first speeches outlining their approach to their roles as parliamentarians.

An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least eight people early on Monday, and the toll could rise, the state news agency quoted a regional official as saying.

Senators have pledged to keep pressure on the Taliban to uphold the rights and freedoms of the Afghan people a year on from the fall of the capital Kabul.