Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar, an eastern province in Afghanistan with roads that lead to Pakistan. 26 of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals are now controlled by Taliban forces. US ...

Afghan military officials say 113 members of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group surrendered to Afghan government forces on December 1 in the Achin district of Nangarhar Province. A statement from ...

KABUL, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- A 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the ...

JALALABAD/KABUL (Reuters) - A senior U.S. defence official in Afghanistan's capital city Kabul on Friday said Islamic State fighters were hiding among pine nut harvesters when a U.S. drone strike in ...

PIKHA, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan — Esmat was nearing the end of fourth grade when the fighters declared his school would be closed for 10 days. "I was sad to miss so many days of school, but we ...

KABUL, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- A 4.7-magnitude earthquake jolted 13 km ENE of Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological ...

Afghans don’t need a reminder that no one is safe from the country’s endless war, but they got one anyway on Tuesday. By Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed KABUL, Afghanistan — The morning was not yet over, ...