Four people, including two children, have died from a gas leak in a hotel in the Afghan city of Ghazni in the country's central part, local authorities said on Thursday

Afghanistan will resume issuing passports in ten more provinces starting on November 25, the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Wednesday

The Taliban (a terrorist group, outlawed in Russia) have released the governor, and chiefs of local police and national security in Afghanistan's eastern province of Laghman, who were arrested when the militants overrun the province, a provincial source told Sputnik on Saturday

The Taliban (a terrorist group, banned in Russia) have captured the city of Ghazni, the capital of the eponymous province in Afghanistan's southeast, spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi said on Thursday