KABUL (PAN): A gas cylinder explosion triggered a huge fire at a busy market on Sunday night, causing massive losses to traders, on the outskirts of the capital Kabul.
ZARANJ (PAN): Five people were killed and another 20 wounded when a passenger bus crashed into a truck in southwestern Nimroz province on Sunday, an official said.
AIBAK (PAN): A man died and six others sustained injuries when a car veered off the road and overturned in northern Samangan province on Sunday, an official said.
FIAZABAD (PAN): Twenty one bodies were retrieved from a fatal avalanche by residents and rescuers in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): Three senior rebel leaders were killed and two other insurgents injured in separate operations by foreign troops in Baghlan and Kabul provinces, officials said on Friday.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Twenty-two people, including women and children, were killed by snow avalanches in Afghanistan's remote northeastern Badakhashan province, officials said on Tuesday.
CHARIKAR (PAN): The Salang Pass -- linking the capital Kabul with northern Afghanistan -- reopened for traffic on Wednesday, two days after a heavy snowstorm closed northern and southern parts
CHARIKAR (PAN): The Salang pass, which connects Kabul with northern Afghanistan, was closed for traffic on Monday due to a heavy snowstorm, stranding hundreds of passenger vehicles bound for Balkh
KABUL (PAN): A severe windstorm on Monday forced the Kabul International Airport authorities to cancel a number of international and domestic flights, an official said.
ZARANJ (PAN): Ninety houses and agriculture crops over 75 acres of land were washed away after a river burst its banks in the Chakhansur district of southwestern Nimroz province on Monday, an official said.
