An Afghan court has sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death after judges said an internet paper he printed and distributed violated the tenets of Islam.

Three large, priceless carpets were stolen from an ancient Afghan mosque by thieves who struck in the middle of the night and replaced them with cheap imitations.

Taliban insurgents have freed a Turkish engineer they kidnapped a month ago as he worked on a road project in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

Explosions jolted the strategic northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif early today as United States warplanes targeted areas near the front lines in strikes coordinated with anti-Taliban fighters, Afghans on both sides said.

US warplanes bombarded Taliban positions near a front line north of the capital of Kabul today, marking what could be the start of a more aggressive campaign on behalf of opposition forces fighting the Islamic regime.

US warplanes bombarded Taliban positions near a front line north of the capital of Kabul today, marking what could be the start of a more aggressive campaign on behalf of opposition forces fighting the Islamic regime.

A cholera epidemic ravaging northern Afghanistan killed another 16 people overnight, many of them children.