Islamic State claimed shooting in Afghan mosque, killing six. Attacker used machine-gun. UN condemned. Child victim. Karzai & Pakistan reacted. IS targets..

The Islamic State group still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across its former stronghold in Syria and Iraq and its fighters pose the most serious..

Two armed members of the Islamic State-Khorasan, a local affiliate of the militant group operating in the Middle East, detonated explosive devices inside the..

The UN political mission in Afghanistan also received "credible allegations of extrajudicial killings of at least 50 individuals suspected of affiliation with..

At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan's restive Nangarhar province, a hospital official told AFP. The..

Taliban government forces destroyed an Islamic State cell in the north of Kabul late on Sunday, a spokesperson for the movement said, after a blast outside a..

Islamic State Khorasan Province has claimed that the Afghan suicide bomber who carried out the Kabul airport blast that killed around 170 people, including 13 US..

"Taliban denying links to the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist outfit is identical to Pakistan's denial on Quetta Shura," said the acting president of Afghanistan,..

A senior Taliban leader, Anas Haqqani, met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks amid efforts by the Taliban to set up a new government in the..

The bombing on Saturday evening shook the city's Shi'ite Muslim neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi. The community, a religious minority in Afghanistan, has been..

Pakistan issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban, just as the militant group is in the midst of US-led peace process in the..

A Malayali youth from Padne in Kasaragod was among the Islamic State (IS) cadre that stormed the Jalalabad jail in Afghanistan on Sunday. Intelligence agencies..

The hours-long gunbattle between Afghan security forces and insurgents in Jalalabad was still ongoing Sunday evening, and casualties were likely to rise

The Afghan intelligence service says it has killed a high ranking official with the Islamic State affiliate in an operation in eastern Afghanistan. A statement..

"UNAMA also continued to document attacks from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) on religious minorities in Afghanistan, including..

A UN report says more than 6,000 Pakistani insurgents, most belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group attacking Pakistani military and..

The population of Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan have plummeted markedly due to years of persecution by the Taliban and Islamic State, they say

Islamic State claimed responsibility for Saturday's bomb explosion that killed an Afghan journalist and a technician in minibus carrying employees of a local..

The first visit to Kabul by Washington's peace envoy since Afghanistan's squabbling political leadership reached a power-sharing agreement comes amid increased..

“Calling the current Afghan Islamic national liberation movement terrorists or a proxy is an untrue and provocative statement,” Suhail Shaheen, spokesman of..

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group are active in Kabul and its surroundings

Afghan security forces arrested three senior South Asia Islamic State members including the group's regional leader, the government said on Monday.

Afghan security forces arrested eight members of a network grouping Islamic State and Haqqani militants responsible for bloody attacks in the capital including..