An intrusive sweep that has spanned several provinces risks alienating Afghans and fueling the insurgency the new government is trying to stop. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Christina Goldbaum and Najim ...

GENEVA, Nov. 13 (UNHCR) - The rapid military gains made by Northern Alliance forces across much of Afghanistan during the past few days have not led to large-scale refugee exodus, raising hopes that ...

The positive news about Northern Alliance military gains in Afghanistan is being undercut in part by reports of atrocities committed against foreigners fighting alongside the Taliban. While many ...

HAIRATON, Northern Afghanistan, Nov. 14 (UNHCR) - In what United Nations officials hope will be the start of a major aid programme inside Afghanistan, a barge carrying 2,000 blankets, plastic sheets, ...

Associated Press WriterKOENIGSWINTER, Germany (AP) -- The northern alliance on Wednesday rejected the United Nation's proposal for a security force for Afghanistan after the Taliban, saying "there is ...

KABUL/WASHINGTON - Anti-Taliban forces swept across still more of Afghanistan today with the hard-line Islamists' control of their stronghold of Kandahar apparently crumbling. As the Northern Alliance ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, 25 critically, a disaster ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- After four weeks of U.S. attacks, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban are no longer "functioning as a government," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday. But an opposition ...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- The Afghan opposition launched an assault on the ruling Taliban militia from an air force base just north of the capital, in an attack coordinated with Sunday's U.S.-led ...

Violence has continued to escalate in Panjshir, a province in Afghanistan’s northeast and the final part of the country that has continued to openly resist the Taliban takeover of the... With the ...