
At least 48 people, the majority of them students, were killed when a suicide blast ripped through a school in a Shiite area of Kabul Wednesday, the ministry of public health said, the latest assault on Afghanistan’s war-weary capital. Around a dozen ambulances rushed to the Mawoud education center in ...

A Taliban delegation travelled to Uzbekistan earlier this month to discuss the Afghan peace process and withdrawal of foreign forces, officials said Sunday, as fighting between insurgents and security forces raged near Kabul. The meetings in Afghanistan’s northern neighbor follow recent reports that the Taliban sent similar delegations to China, ...