More than 90% of those killed in a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan were women and children, UNICEF said Wednesday, as fresh tremors terrorized residents of villages flattened by the ...

A series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan have killed more than 2,000 people, according to government officials. We get an update from Fazel Qazizai, who has long worked with NPR in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes, but the series of temblors that struck the west of the country on Saturday were the deadliest, most devastating quakes the already-crippled, Taliban-ruled ...

A strong earthquake rattled Afghanistan's western province of Herat on Wednesday, forcing authorities to redeploy relief and rescue teams already in the field following a series of deadly quakes ...

At least 2,000 people were killed when an earthquake and a series of devastating aftershocks struck western Afghanistan over the weekend, according to the governing Taliban.. The earthquake rocked ...

More than 900 people have reportedly been killed in an earthquake in Afghanistan The hardest hit areas were remote farming villages in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika. "All the village ...

On October 7, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Herat Province in Afghanistan, claiming thousands of lives, flattening entire villages, and leaving communities to live in tent cities after ...

A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan early Sunday, ... (18 miles) north-northwest of Hert, followed a series of tremors that killed more than a thousand.

A powerful earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Sunday, just a little over a week after thousands were killed by quakes and their aftermath in the same region. The U.S. Geological Survey said ...

The Taliban leaders of Afghanistan are appealing for outside help after a devastating earthquake killed at least 1,000 people Wednesday and injured another 1,500. The quake struck in the eastern ...

Kabul: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted Afghanistan late Friday night, a statement by the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said. As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 125km.