Herāt News

Seventeen-year-old Nowruz was celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid with his father, mother and 11-year-old sister when 50 Taliban gunmen attacked their home with rockets and gunfire and killed him. The Taliban's target on Tuesday night was Nowruz's father Esmatullah,...

American forces have finally managed to kill Ghulam Yahya Akbari, the self-styled scourge of Herat, a city he had once served as mayor. Thousands wept as Ghulam Yahya Akbari, rebel commander extraordinaire, was laid to rest beside the mosque that...

While Pakistan continues the struggle to tame its Taliban elements, multinational forces are claiming some success in neighbouring Afghanistan. A joint operation by foreign forces and Afghan army has reportedly killed Ghulam Yahya Akbari, a Taliban commander, in the western province of...

Five others were injured when their vehicle drove over a mine on the outskirts of Herat A Spanish soldier has died in Afghanistan after his army vehicle drove over a mine near Syah Washan, on the outskirts of Herat, at...

Kyrgyzstan cancelled the deals in June and gave permission to the United States to continue using the Manas air base after Washington agreed to pay more to have access to it. Spain moved 60 soldiers and two Hercules C-130 aircraft...

Dying to Give Birth: Afghanistan's Hazards One in six women in Afghanistan dies in childbirth-20,000 a year. Afghanistan is the world's second highest rate of infant mortality, right after Liberia. It is estimated that 60 infants per 1,000 births die...

The US military had initially declared that it killed 15 militants in the attack in Afghanistan's western province of Herat. US sent an investigation team to the bombing site in response to demands by the Afghan government, which claimed children...

Al Jazeera has gained exclusive access to a secret network of Taliban bases hidden deep inside Afghanistan's Herat province. The bases are run by Ghullam Yahya Akbari, the former mayor of Herat. He says he and his men are fighting...