Casualties among Afghanistan's security forces have declined by 10 percent this year, the country's Acting Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi said on Thursday.

Afghanistan Railway Authority on Thursday signed a contract with Kazakh company to build a 43-kilometer rail track in western Herat province.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has strongly condemned Taliban's coordinated attack near military base in Afghanistan's Bagram district on Wednesday.

Six tribal elders have been kidnapped by militants from highway between Balkh and Jowzjan provinces in north Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.

At least two people were killed and 73 others were wounded in a militant attack near the largest US base in Afghanistan in Bagram district of Parwan province on Wednesday, officials said.

Groundwater level in Afghan capital Kabul drops by 3 to 5 meters every year, the Ministry of Energy and Water said on Tuesday.

Outsiders should not interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and decide its future, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Monday.

An Afghan boy claims that his father has been torturing him hammer, knife, screwdriver and hot spoon for the last one year in northern Faryab province.

Marking International Human Rights Day with this year's theme being Youth Stand Up for Human Rights, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on Tuesday highlighted the role of young people in the promotion and protection of human rights.

The war in Afghanistan will end in a matter of weeks if Pakistan denies safe haven to the Taliban, US Senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday.