An Afghan official says gunshots erupted during a rally in a northern province where a group was protesting the selection of candidates for the 2014 elections, killing two people and wounding eight.

AIBAK (Pajhwok): Residents of northern Samangan province are concerned about the increasing population of stray and rabid dogs, as well as an increase in dog bite cases with the onset of warm weather.

Militants also seized Aibak, capital of Samangan province, without resistance, ... At least 27 children have been killed in various provinces in the last three days, UNICEF said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a wedding party in Afghanistan's northern Samangan province Saturday, killing a regional commander and 22 other people. One of those killed in the ...

He was a former military commander under Northern Alliance general Abdul Rashid Dostum, a powerful Uzbek warlord. Samangan, a province with about 350,000 people, ...

In June 2020, seven workers were killed after a gas blast caused a cave-in at a mine in Samangan. And a year earlier, at least 30 people died when a gold mine collapsed in Badakhshan province.

Fighting on the outskirts of Aybak, the capital of Samangan Province, began on Monday morning as the Taliban pushed into the city, having toppled a nearby district two days earlier.

Rescuers have been working tirelessly since the collapse, which occurred late Saturday in the Dara-i-Sof Payin district of Samangan province. Samangan Governor’s spokesperson, Esmat Muradi, told ...

I was based in Kabul and deployed to Balkh and Samangan provinces in the north of Afghanistan, where I met with analysts, academics, journalists, parliamentary candidates, election officials, U.N ...

Taliban insurgents launched separate attacks on Afghan security forces in the country's north, killing at least 52, provincial officials said Monday.