A suicide bomber targeted a memorial service in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, officials said. A former Taliban police official was among those ...

Badakhshan province is known for its rainfed farming and more recently for poppy cultivation. But recurrent droughts and the ...

KABUL, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police in Badakhshan province said on Thursday that they had arrested four suspected drug smugglers and seized quantities of narcotics in two separate operations.

Across 600 kilometres of hard, winding roads, Marwa and Aisha have returned to the mountains of Badakhshan and the land of lapis lazuli. Lapis has travelled from these valleys to the palaces of the ...

KABUL, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Four passengers were killed and two others injured after their vehicle plunged into a river in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, provincial police spokesman ...

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan’s vast and remote northern province of Badakhshan -- which straddles the borders with Pakistan, China, and Tajikistan -- was once a bastion of resistance to the ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Over 10 tonnes of expired and low-quality food items, medicines and health products were destroyed in northeastern Badakhshan province, as they posed a risk to public health, the ...

In its latest video that celebrates the signing of the agreement that facilitates the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban promotes the training of its “commandos” at a camp in the ...

Residents of two remote districts in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan have demanded more accountability and better treatment from the authorities after a Taliban crackdown on protests ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Russian private jet carrying six people crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan but the pilot and some of the others on board survived, the Taliban said Sunday. The crash ...

ISLAMABAD — A Russian private jet carrying six people crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan but the pilot and some of the others on board survived, the Taliban said Sunday. The crash happened ...