When she first heard about the new Paiwand (Connection) programme on her local Saday-e-Adalat radio, Rahela was skeptical.

Abdul Ahad Mohmand, who has died of cancer aged 66 or 67, was the only citizen of Afghanistan to travel into space; three ...

Cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan’s first citizen in space, has died at age 67. His family and friends say he died from cancer on June 21 in Germany, where he had lived since ...

Pakistan launched airstrikes and sent ground troops into Afghan provinces along its border on Sunday, killing dozens, ...

Pakistan says its strikes were a response to "recent terrorist attacks against innocent people".

Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan's first astronaut and the first person to recite the Holy Quran in space, has died in Germany ...

A FORMER translator for the British Army who became a taxi driver after arriving in Scotland from Afghanistan has been jailed for rape. Abdul Nabizada, 36, preyed on his 19-year-old female passenger ...

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The Afghan embassy in Canberra has officially closed, after continuing to operate for years following the fall of Kabul. This ...

A former translator for the British Army who became a taxi driver after arriving in Scotland from Afghanistan raped a teenage ...

Three Afghan asylumseekers have been jailed for a total of 20 years for grooming and sexually exploiting a vulnerable girl in ...

The men, from Hull and Wakefield, gave the girl drugs and alcohol before soliciting sex.