A memorial service in the northeastern province of Badakhshan in Afghanistan was targeted by a suicide bomber on Thursday, resulting in the deaths of at least 13 individuals.

At least 13 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province on Thursday as the attack targeted the memorial service of a Taliban leader, officials said.

KABUL, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Three children lost their lives and three others sustained injuries as a landmine left over from past wars went off in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on ...

Badakhshan lies several hundred kilometers from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, and is isolated by rugged mountain terrain. It has been largely de facto autonomous since Tajikistan became independent ...

Badakhshan is an isolated, mountainous region of southeastern Tajikistan that shares a long and virtually open border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China. The region has considerable mineral ...

KABUL, June 6 (Reuters) - The deputy governor of Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday, the provincial spokesperson said. "Nissar Ahmad Ahmadi, with his ...

Taliban authorities were holding meetings in Badakhshan, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a Whatsapp message, after several days of protests, in which two people were killed. Sign up here.

The Taliban is under scrutiny after $1.2 million is reported to have been "stolen" from a Russian private jet that crashed in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province on January 21.. Four out of ...

ISLAMABAD — A Russian private jet carrying six people crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan but the pilot and some of the others on board survived, the Taliban said Sunday.