Afghan Floods

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that he had fled the country on Sunday to "prevent a flood of bloodshed", as the Taliban entered the capital, capping a lightning offensive across the country.

The Afghan Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around Kabul on Saturday, as refugees from the the terror group's relentless offensive flooded the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations.

Taliban fighters were attempting to seize control of the airport in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz late today, after the militants seized a provincial capital for the first time since their ouster 14 years ago. The fighters were flooding into the airport and about 80 per cent of the complex was under their control, according to an Afghan securi...

More than 80 bodies have been found after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan's mountainous and remote north, a provincial official said on Sunday, as police and villagers scoured the rugged terrain for missing people.

Rescuers scrambled Sunday to deliver food and medical supplies to Afghan families marooned on mountaintops after flash floods killed 74 people in a remote northern district, washing away hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to flee.

Flooding in a remote part of northern Afghanistan has claimed more than 50 lives and forced thousands to flee their homes, a provincial official said on Saturday.

An official says flooding in northern Afghanistan has killed more than 100 people and driven hundreds more from their homes.

More than 100 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by flash floods in north and west Afghanistan, officials said on Friday, prompting desperate pleas for help from the impoverished provincial authorities.

Flash floods have swept northern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people, Afghan and UN authorities said on Saturday.

Flood waters ravaged a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 19 people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials said on Sunday. About 60 other people were missing and rescuers were looking for them across Sar-e-Pul, the capital of a province with the same name, said Sayed Faizullah Sadat, the national disaster director in ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that he had fled the country on Sunday to "prevent a flood of bloodshed", as the Taliban entered the capital, capping a lightning offensive across the country.

The Afghan Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around Kabul on Saturday, as refugees from the the terror group's relentless offensive flooded the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations.

Taliban fighters were attempting to seize control of the airport in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz late today, after the militants seized a provincial capital for the first time since their ouster 14 years ago. The fighters were flooding into the airport and about 80 per cent of the complex was under their control, according to an Afghan securi...

More than 80 bodies have been found after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan's mountainous and remote north, a provincial official said on Sunday, as police and villagers scoured the rugged terrain for missing people.

Rescuers scrambled Sunday to deliver food and medical supplies to Afghan families marooned on mountaintops after flash floods killed 74 people in a remote northern district, washing away hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to flee.

Flooding in a remote part of northern Afghanistan has claimed more than 50 lives and forced thousands to flee their homes, a provincial official said on Saturday.

An official says flooding in northern Afghanistan has killed more than 100 people and driven hundreds more from their homes.

More than 100 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by flash floods in north and west Afghanistan, officials said on Friday, prompting desperate pleas for help from the impoverished provincial authorities.

Flash floods have swept northern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people, Afghan and UN authorities said on Saturday.

Flood waters ravaged a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 19 people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials said on Sunday. About 60 other people were missing and rescuers were looking for them across Sar-e-Pul, the capital of a province with the same name, said Sayed Faizullah Sadat, the national disaster director in ...