ISLAMABAD (AP) — A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan, opening fire and killing six people as they were praying, a Taliban official said Tuesday. Local media reports and a former president ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers attending Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven people and wounding 15 others, a police spokesperson said ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A blast went off Friday at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, a Taliban police official said. There ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan police say a bomb ripped through a mosque in northern Kabul during Friday prayers, killing 12 worshippers. Spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz says the imam of the mosque was among ...

The Blue Mosque of Mazar-e-Sharif which dates back to the 15th century was affected by the earthquake. At least 20 people were killed and more than 600 were injured, according to authorities.The ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the historic ...

(CNN) — A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Afghanistan, killing at least 12 people and damaging one the country’s most beautiful mosques, local authorities said. Families were jolted awake in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The former imam of the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque regularly delivered fiery sermons in front of Osama bin Laden, his al Qaeda colleagues and the Taliban faithful. He declared that ...