Taliban officials say heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 40 people and injured nearly 350 others
July 16, 2024
A joint report from three U.N. agencies says the mental health of Afghan women, who have suffered under harsh measures imposed by the Taliban since taking power two years ago, has deteriorated across the country
September 19, 2023
An Afghan diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resigned
May 04, 2024A thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools
June 13, 2024
About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan are forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024
May 29, 2024
Taliban officials say flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports
May 18, 2024
Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead
May 13, 2024
Victims of the devastating floods in northern Afghanistan are burying the dead and looking for the loved ones still missing
May 12, 2024
The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan
May 11, 2024
The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education
March 20, 2024
The Taliban have held a public execution of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium
February 26, 2024
Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, It says this is jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans
February 12, 2024
UNICEF says almost 100,000 children in Afghanistan direly need support, three months after earthquakes devastated the west of the country
January 15, 2024
A rights group says the Taliban’s education policies are harming boys as well as girls in Afghanistan
December 06, 2023
Rights group Afghan Witness says online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active Afghan women significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021
November 20, 2023
Officials from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban welcomed the resumption of FlyDubai flights to Kabul international airport
November 15, 2023
The United Nations’ World Food Program is appealing for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan
October 18, 2023
The United Nations says it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by Afghanistan's Taliban authorities during arrests and detentions of people
September 20, 2023
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