The death toll from a major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has passed 1,400, a Taliban government spokesman said ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have called for international help after a huge earthquake killed hundreds and levelled entire villages, piling further misery on the war-ravaged country that was already ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6 hit eastern Afghanistan, destroying multiple villages and killing more than 800 people, officials say.

The disaster will further stretch the resources of the war-torn nation's Taliban administration, already grappling with crises ranging from a sharp drop in foreign aid to deportations of hundreds of ...

The 6.0-magnitude temblor struck a remote mountainous area in eastern Afghanistan where many people live in poorly constructed homes made of mud bricks and wood.

Hundreds of others were injured in the quake, which struck the city of Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan.