The death toll from recent heavy rain and hail in three Afghan provinces ... the drought," said Abdullah Jan Sayeq, spokesman for Afghanistan's National Disaster Management Authority.

urging "the de facto authorities in Afghanistan to place a moratorium on the use of the death penalty." Thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan have left via the Torkham border crossing as part ...

In Afghanistan, at least 50 people have been killed due to heavy rain and flooding in central parts of the country. The numbers of casualties are likely to rise as dozens of people are still missing.

Hailstorm and flash floods have caused casualties and property damages in the northern Afghanistan's Badakhsan province on ...

About 1,500 people died in Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August, according to the U.N. report released this week. The report did not say what the death toll was for August.