Terrorist attacks and the total number of deaths increased in Bangladesh in 2015, according to the US State Department.

Greece begins evacuating thousands of stranded migrants from the makeshift Idomeni camp on its northern border with Macedonia.

President Barack Obama confirms Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour is killed in a US air strike, hailing his death as an "important milestone" in efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's spy agency says Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is killed in a US bombing raid, the first confirmation from regional officials of his death, which marks a potential blow to the resurgent militant movement.

David Cameron has described Nigeria and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt" in a conversation with the Queen.

Two buses and a fuel tanker collide in Afghanistan's Ghazni province killing 73 people and injuring more than 50, officials say.

Family of the five-year-old Afghan boy who received autographed shirts from Lionel Messi is forced to leave Afghanistan amid constant telephone threats.

The death toll from a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday has more than doubled to 64 people, the government says.

At least 12 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a bomb targeting police recruits in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake is felt across a number of major cities across south-west Asia today.

Two Brac officials kidnapped in Afghanistan were released yesterday, more than two weeks after their abduction.

Two Bangladeshi Brac officials, who were abducted from Kunduz city, Afghanistan, are released today.

Greek authorities are gearing up to send hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, which is racing to set up reception centres under a controversial EU deal.

Unidentified criminals abducted two Bangladeshi Brac officials in Kunduz of war-torn Afghanistan on Thursday.

Two Bangladeshi Brac officials working in Afghanistan are abducted by unidentified miscreants from Kunduz city.

Afghanistan qualify for the Super Ten phase of ICC WT20 2016 on the back of a 59-run win over Zimbabwe at Nagpur stadium under the lights.

Afghanistan set up a winner-takes-all showdown with Zimbabwe by beating Hong Kong by six wickets in the World Twenty20 in Nagpur.

Scotland miss the chance to record a first victory at a World Twenty20 as Afghanistan held on to win by 14 runs in Nagpur.

The Afghan boy who became an online hit after wearing a homemade shirt bearing Lionel Messi's famous number 10 has finally received the real thing - from the Argentine footballer himself.

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.