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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strong earthquake hits western Afghanistan. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.3, the U.S. Geological Survey said. ... followed a series of powerful tremors that killed more than a thousand.

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.

Over a week since a major earthquake decimated his village in northwest Afghanistan, Noor Ahmad is on a harrowing hunt to find his 5-year-old. The destroyed home of Noor Ahmad and his family in ...

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 ...

An earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 1,000 people, injuring 1,500 more and destroying homes and other buildings in the rugged, mountainous region.