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The Islamic State group claimed on its Telegram channel Friday that it was behind a blast at a sports club that killed four people in the Afghan capital the night before. The Sunni extremist group said it had used a…

Parachinar, a town in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, saw the murder of another follower of Ahlul-Bayt, peace be upon them, on grounds of his Shia identity. According to initial reports, the armed terrorists opened fire on the passengers…

An explosion in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the Afghan capital Kabul killed four people and critically injured seven Thursday, news outlets reported. The cause of the Thursday evening blast at a boxing club is still not known, but…

More than 80 tonnes of UNICEF medical supplies arrived in Kabul yesterday, including medicines, medical equipment, as well as midwifery and surgical kits, for children, pregnant women, and families following several devastating earthquakes in Herat, western Afghanistan. Funded by the…

Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s thrice-elected former prime minister, has returned home after four years of self-exile in the United Kingdom to stand in next year’s elections against his biggest rival, former premier Imran Khan. The 73-year-old veteran politician arrived by chartered…

The World Health Organization warns that tens of thousands of survivors of a series of powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquakes that struck western Afghanistan’s Herat province between October 7 and 15 are in desperate need of humanitarian aid and essential health…

Another powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale shook northwestern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring dozens of others, Anadolu Agency reported. The earthquake rocked the provincial capital Herat at 8:06 a.m. local time, a…

Shiites and Hazaras of Afghanistan were once again targeted by a terrorist attack while praying in the mosque as a suicide bombing ripped through a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, martyring 40 and injuring 60 other worshippers. Islamic…

In the aftermath of the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan in 2021, many Afghan refugees sought sanctuary in the United Kingdom. However, a growing number of these refugees now find themselves trapped in a state of visa limbo.  The process of…

UN officials confirmed on Thursday that more than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children. According to Taliban officials, Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders…