Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people and injured 40, according to Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority. The heavy flooding also destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops ...

Rising Maternal Deaths. The maternal mortality rate in Afghanistan was 1,346 for every 100,000 births in 2000, during the Taliban's first stint in power.

Heavy snowfall and rain have killed 36 people and injured 40 in different parts of Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Wednesday. Days of extreme weather in most of the country’s ...

At least 35 people were killed and 230 injured on Monday after heavy rain in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said. "On Monday evening, rain caused by thunderstorms killed 35 people and ...

The death toll continued to climb Tuesday in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and neighboring Afghanistan after severe winter weather combined with a harsh cold snap led to numerous avalanches across ...

ISLAMABAD — Flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, Taliban officials said Saturday, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports.

With at least 89 people killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan thus far, authorities said they fear more deaths because dozens of people are missing. The worst-hit area so far has been Kabul Province ...

The weather departments in both Afghanistan and Pakistan forecast more rain in the coming days. South Asia receives 70-80 per cent of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season which starts in ...

Afghanistan’s state-run Bakhtar News Agency said five people were killed and 11 injured in Gayan, a district of Paktika province that is one of the areas worst hit in Wednesday’s quake.

Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, a disaster management official said on Thu… ...