By AFPSenior UN officials have arrived in Kabul for talks as the United Nations chief voiced concern over the Taliban's creation of "gender-based apartheid," a UN spokesman said Tuesday.Since returning to power 17 months ago, the Taliban have imposed...

An explosion at the entrance to a military airfield in the Afghan capital killed and wounded several people on Sunday, an official told AFP.The cause of the blast at the gate of the facility next to Kabul's international airport was unclear, interior...

A suicide bomb attack at a learning centre in the Afghan capital on Friday killed 19 people as students prepared for university entrance exams, police said.The blast happened in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of western Kabul, a predominantly Shiit...

By AFPTwo employees of Russia's embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul were killed Monday and several people wounded in an attack near the diplomatic mission, the foreign ministry in Moscow said."At 10:50 am Kabul time on September 5, an unidentified mi...

Taliban fighters fired into the air Saturday to disperse a rare women's protest in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists' return to power.About 40 women -- chanting "Bread, work and freedom" -- marched in f...