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Another 6.3-magnitude quake strikes outside Herat in western area where thousands were killed last weekA powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people a…
Another 6.3-magnitude quake strikes outside Herat in western area where thousands were killed last weekA powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people a…
Hospitals are at capacity since the quakes occurred around the city of Herat, and the Taliban are ill-equipped to respond effectivelyAnother powerful earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, days after a series of quakes in the same …
The men were all detained over allegedly breaking the country’s laws earlier this yearFour British nationals who were held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan have been released and are to return to the UK on Tuesday.The Presidium Network, a British not-…
Top official sanctions case against Booker prize-winning novelist for comments about Kashmir The Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, accordi…
Victims of attack in Kachin state include children, according to media and local activistsAt least 29 people, including young children, have been killed in an attack on a camp for displaced people in Myanmar’s Kachin state, according to media reports a…
People spend second night in ruined villages where desperate search for loved ones is continuingSurvivors of a series of powerful earthquakes that struck western Afghanistan on Saturday have spent a second night sleeping amid the rubble of demolished v…
Public inquiry into alleged actions of SAS units to begin amid victims’ families pleas for truth to be uncoveredA public inquiry into allegations that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by members of three different British SAS units begins on Monday ami…
Magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near Herat on Saturday, with hundreds of houses reported destroyedThe death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan has risen sharply to more than 2,000 people, according to a Taliban spokesperson, as re…
UN says estimate of 320 fatalities is being verified, although local authorities put the death toll at 100, with 500 injuredHundreds of people are feared dead after a series of powerful earthquakes hit western Afghanistan.The United Nations said more t…