KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Rioting at a prison in western Afghanistan has left at least eight inmates dead, provincial officials said Thursday. The violence erupted on Wednesday night at the prison in ...

NEWS ARCHIVE: Social media posts showed scenes of chaos as thousands of Afghans swarm the tarmac, trying to get on any flight to escape Raney Aronson-Rath, Host: This August marks one year since US ...

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): In the central prison of western Herat province, a place often associated with“privations and imprisonment,” dozens of inmates are not only learning skills through technical and ...

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - After Farida's husband sold their three-year-old daughter to support his drug habit of several years, she took a knife and stabbed him to death in their house in the ...

Military, police, and Amniat forces in Herat have committed numerous cases of torture, beatings, and arbitrary arrests in addition to the politically motivated violence documented earlier in this ...

The 16th-century Moghul emperor Babur, writing in his memoirs, said "the whole habitable world had not such a town as Herat." That was when the western Afghan city was celebrated as a center for the ...