South Korea is reviewing a plan to build a power plant in Afghanistan a government official said Wednesday.

Afghanistan’s interior ministry hopes to recruit up to 5,000 women police officers, no easy task in a traditional Muslim society - at present it has just 700 women in a force of 97,700.

Abdul Wakil Sulamal Shinwari, Dorrace Press, £5

Written by Abdul Wakil Sulamal Shinwari, a native of Afghanistan, this collection of 12 short stories surveys ...

The US and its allies face a "daunting" task in Afghanistan and "it is much too early" to predict how it will turn out, says Richard Holbrooke, Washington's special representative to the region.

Turkey warned the Obama administration yesterday of negative diplomatic consequences if it fails to impede a US resolution branding the 1915 slaughter of Armenians as genocide.

After his inauguration on Thursday, re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would organize a "loya jirga" -- a large assembly of Afghan leaders.

Afghanistan's incumbent president, Hamid Karzai, assumed leadership of the country in December 2001, when he was selected to lead the Afghan interim government after the fall of the Taliban.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

Afghan cricket team beat Scotland and Irland

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