A Afghan teenager kidnapped in Iran has been rescued in western Herat province, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday. In a video, MoI said security forces during an operation rescued the boy and arrested two kidnappers.…
A 16-year-old boy died in hospital from wounds he sustained in a blast caused by an old mortar shell in the capital of southern Ghazni province on Wednesday. Police spokesman Abu Khalid Sarhadi told Pajhwok Afghan News…
A child died after drowning in Kabul river in Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday. The child was pulled from the river in Lalpura district, said Sidiqullah Qureshi, the information culture director. He told Pajhwok Afghan…
A two-year-old boy fell into a deep well in the Nawzad district of southern Helmand province on Tuesday, an official said.
A teenage boy has been killed by unidentified people in Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, officials said Sunday. ZabihullahJawhar, provincial police spokesman, confirmed the incident and said the teenager named Azizullah was killed on Saturday night.…
A boy has been killed in gunfire from armed men traveling in a rickshaw in Jalalabad, capital of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said. The boy’s father, Haji Wais who works at the Nangarhar Zonal Hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan…
A 14-year-old boy named Omaid, who earns bread for his family of eight, says he left school when he was in fourth grade and started selling ice cream to support his family. In an interview with Pajhwok…
A 13-year-old boy was found hanging dead inside his home in Samangan yesterday, taking the number of suicide deaths to five in one and a half months in the northern province, police said Tuesday. Police said their primary…
The body of a 13-year-old boy was found in the Tataman Dara area of central Parwan province on Sunday morning, an official said. Farhad Hashimi, provincial crime branch chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the boy had been killed…
A boy kidnapped by insurgents from Kabul has been safely recovered by security forces in the Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province, police said on Sunday. The militants wanted to use Mohammad Muslim, 12, who was abducted from…
Police on Saturday detained a 17-year-old boy with a pistol and two hand-grenades in southeastern Paktika province. Provincial National Directorate of Security chief Col. Nisar Ahmad Abdur Rahimzai told Pajhwok Afghan News the teenager was a resident of…
