KABUL, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- An iron-smelting plant worth 200 million U.S. dollars will be opened in Maidan Shar city, the capital of eastern Afghanistan's Wardak province, the state-owned Bakhtar news ...

Taliban insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters use Wardak as a gateway to launch attacks ... Nato troops are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and have gradually been handing ...

A suicide car bomber has killed at least two people and injured 40 others in Afghanistan's Wardak province, officials say. Police said the bomb was detonated near a security centre in the ...

An arrest warrant was issued against deputy foreign minister Abbas Stanikzai, say local reports. However, Stanikzai maintains ...

The Ministry of Refugee Affairs of Taliban announced that 141 Afghan migrants, including women and children, were detained by Pakistani police and deported to Afghanistan. They were handed over to ...

Canada's February Outlook: La Niña and the polar vortex team up to delay spring ...