The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

India has rushed emergency relief assistance and a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted that the first consignment of India's earthquake relief assistance for the people of Afghanistan has reached Kabul.

Senior UN officials say the earthquake in Afghanistan has added another emergency facing the country, which is also confronting its worst drought in 30 years and massive poverty

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban are resisting efforts by the United Nations to help get humanitarian funding into the country and are interfering in the delivery of aid, U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Thursday.

Health ministry says aid has begun to arrive to the area affected by earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people.

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in remote Afghanistan exacerbates a tricky ethical dilemma for Australia and other like-minded nations: How can they help Afghan people dealing with yet another unimaginable situation without supporting the Taliban directly?

Zobaidah Salangy's body was found in a shallow grave in a woodland

‘We will suffer with this for the rest of our lives,’ Zobaidah Salangy’s family says

"I would get a lot of phone calls from people threatening me, saying they knew I'd worked for the British Forces, it was no longer safe for us."