The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

An explosion in a Shi'ite residential area in Afghanistan's capital city Kabul on Friday killed at least two people and left three wounded, police said.

President Joe Biden will soon sign legislation that will give easier access to health and disability benefits to more than 3.5 million veterans who were exposed to toxic substances on overseas deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and more. It wasn’t easy to get through Congress. The Senate passed that bill after…

Observers began speculating about al-Qaeda's third Emir after the death of Ayman Zawahiri. Currently, two names are being circulated as possible candidates for the position: the Moroccan Mohammad Abati, dubbed Abdul Rahman al-Maghrabi, and Mohammad Salaheddine Zeidan, named Saif al-Adl. Abati is the son-in-law of Zawahiri and was very close…

On the day a U.S. drone strike killed the leader of al-Qaida in Afghanistan, NPR sat down for an interview with the man in charge of the country's defense.

Scotland's Micky Yule woke up in Birmingham 12 years ago as a double-amputee after stepping on an IED in Afghanistan but now he's returned to the city to claim a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Top Taliban officials didn’t know al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was hiding in Afghanistan, a spokesman said, and an investigation is underway to check the veracity of U.S. claims he was killed in an American airstrike in the capital Kabul over the weekend.

Gavin Tunstall threw himself into army life and loved every moment — but things started to fall apart after he saw the bodies of children killed in combat in Afghanistan, the royal commission into veterans' suicide hears.

Filmmaker Ramita Navai has seen girls and women forced to marry Taliban members or arrested for violating the morality code. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is Afghanistan Undercover.

Ayman al-Zawahri, the head of Al-Qaeda, was killed in a drone strike on Sunday