Afghanistan faces one of the world’s biggest displacement crises amid poverty, drought and earthquakes, UN agencies warned on Monday.
After returning to power in 2021, the Taliban barred girls from secondary schools and universities, pushed women out of much of the formal workforce, and imposed sweeping restrictions on their daily lives. Yet, over the same period, the number of women-owned businesses in Afghanistan has grown signi…
The rupture between Afghanistan’s Taliban and their erstwhile allies in Pakistan continues to cause suffering on both sides of the border.
Chinese workers have reportedly resumed construction on a critical highway along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border where two such workers were killed in November 2025.
At least 28 civilians were killed and 49 injured in airstrikes carried out in Paktya, Paktika and Kunar provinces in Afghanistan on Sunday evening, the UN Mission in the country has reported.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have been locked in an on-off cycle of cross-border strikes, leaving their ties in tatters.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake struck 43 km south of Jurm in northeastern Afghanistan
Four soldiers dead; attack claimed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a militant faction of the TTP that has largely operated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan
The continuous compromise of human rights standards by bodies like the United Nations provides the Taliban with the precise economic, political, and psychological lifelines required to sustain their autocracy.
In April, the first Afghanistan-Central Asia Consultative Dialogue was held in Kabul, highlighting the considerable development of relations over the last five years.
Those using their phones at work will see them smashed and face punishment, according to a written order from the Taliban government’s highest court.
Deutschland hat erneut mehr als 30 Straftäter nach Afghanistan abgeschoben - auf Basis einer Vereinbarung mit den islamistischen Taliban in dem Land. Kritiker der Aktion organisierten eine Mahnwache am Leipziger Flughafen.
The odyssey begins in Indonesia and ends, 15,000 kilometres later, in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Along the way, critical food aid destined for young Afghan students crosses nine countries, over land and sea, skirting geopolitical unrest and conflict zones.
Sverdlovsk Governor Denis Pasler has signed a decree ordering the creation of a named registry of soldiers from the region who were killed in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts, including the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya. The Russian business daily Kommersant was among the first to report on t…
Since its neighbors rely on unregulated river flows, any unilateral Afghan attempt to develop water infrastructure is perceived as a threat, risking regional destabilization.