Afghanistan

Pakistan&s cabinet has approved a draft agreement that allows the government to provide troops for security at the FIFA World Cup scheduled to be held later this year.

The approval of the draft agreement came ahead of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&s visit to Qatar that started on Tuesday.

It was not immediately clear when the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the upcoming SCO summit in Uzbekistan with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon in a phone call on Tuesday, the Kremlin press service said.

The presidents exchanged views on a number of issues as well as the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand in September, the Kremlin said...

Residents of Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, say that six people were injured in an explosion in the city on Wednesday morning.

Najibullah Tawana, head of public health for Balkh, said the six people who were injured have been taken to Balkh&s hospital.

Tawana reports that the wounded people are in stable condition, but said one...

At least six people have died in flash floods in southern Kandahar province since Tuesday, local officials said Wednesday.

Mawlavi Taher, Maroof district police chief, in Kandahar, confirmed that six people had died in floods in parts of his district on Tuesday night.

He said the district&s security department compound was also destroyed in...