2.8 million children under five years old in southern, south-eastern, western and eastern Afghanistan will be targeted by a new 3-day polio eradication drive, to be launched 14 February.

The Taliban have freed four Afghans abducted in the north earlier this month along with two Chinese engineers, who remain in militant custody, a police official said Monday.

The death toll of A/H1N1 influenza continues to increase worldwide, reaching at least 9,596 by Dec. 6, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a latest update on Friday.

Armed men after beating two journalists of a local television Sepehr took them into custody for four hours, said a press release of the private television channel on Saturday

Turkish troops based in Afghanistan's Wardak province distributed 20 tons mutton to local needy people, a local newspaper reported Monday.

Hundreds of Kabul University students staged a peaceful demonstration Sunday to register their protest over what they describe desecration of Muslim holy book Quran by the U.S. troops days ago.

Afghan Minister for Public Health Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi has revealed that 12 million out of the total 30 million Afghans, including 3 million children, live under poverty line in the war-torn country, a local newspaper reported Saturday.

Hundreds of people came to streets in Herat province, west of Afghanistan, Sunday to protest what they described administration's failure to ensure security for the citizens, police said.

French riot police have detained 278 migrants in a dawn operation to dismantle the "jungle", a network of makeshift camps set up by illegal migrants, mostly Afghans, near the northern Channel port of Calais.

The three-day drive vaccination, wrapped up on Monday, was a joint effort by the Afghan health authorities, World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

More than 200 mostly Afghan boys and men braced Tuesday for a showdown with French riot police preparing to raze the "jungle", a makeshift migrant camp on the Channel coast they call their home.

Construction on Afghanistan's first nursing school has begun in Faizabad, capital of the northern Badakhshan province with the financial support of the United States, a local official said Saturday.
"This essential project bears 1 million U.S. dollars provided by the United States,...

The main challenge is that many people in Afghanistan believe that education of girls are not so important.

Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Around 90 percent of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) due to the military operations in northwestern Pakistan's Swat have so far returned to their homes, a U.N. humanitarian official said here Thursday.

Signaling a major shift of U.S. anti-drug policy in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has listed 50 Afghan drug lords connected to Taliban on a "hit list," according to a Congressional study released on Monday.

An Afghan plane bound for the restive western Chinese region of Xinjiang was sent back to Afghanistan Sunday, with Chinese state media blaming a bomb threat but the airline denying this.

Taliban insurgents fighting Afghan and international troops based in Afghanistan have established their propaganda mouthpiece in the southern Ghazni province, locals said Sunday.

Government officials and some other people attended an campaign organized by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics in capital Kabul on June 26, the World Drug Day.

In a rare event in the conservative post-Taliban Afghanistan, 36 couples got married at the same time and same place, officials said Tuesday.