CAIRO—The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Saturday in the western Afghan city of Herat, it said in a post on Telegram on Sunday. At least six people were killed when a blast ripped through a minivan in the city, officials said. Since the Taliban terrorist group took over in August,…

The Taliban hanged four dead bodies in a public square in western Afghanistan, according to local witnesses, in a sign that the group is returning to some of its harsh punishments of the past. Several residents of Herat, identified as Mohammad Nazir and Wazir Ahmad, said saw the Taliban displaying the bodies in the city’s…

KABUL—Taliban insurgents have seized most of Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city, and also captured Ismail Khan, the veteran local commander leading militia resistance there, local officials said on Friday. The fall of Herat, the latest in a series of major provincial cities to be taken by the Taliban in the past few days, has dealt a…