Afghanistan

Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Erupts in Heavy Clashes After Cross-Border Attacks

Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Erupts in Heavy Clashes After Cross-Border Attacks

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated sharply after heavy overnight clashes along multiple points of the frontier, following cross-border attacks by Taliban and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters. The violence marks one of the deadliest escalations since Pakistan’s Defence Minister…
UN Warns of Looming Humanitarian Crisis as Drought Worsens in Afghanistan

UN Warns of Looming Humanitarian Crisis as Drought Worsens in Afghanistan

UN Warns of Looming Humanitarian Crisis as Drought Worsens in Afghanistan …………… The United Nations has issued a stark warning about the worsening drought in Afghanistan, saying severe water shortages and rising temperatures are endangering thousands of families and pushing…
Taliban Blocks Social Media Access in Multiple Afghan Provinces

Taliban Blocks Social Media Access in Multiple Afghan Provinces

Taliban Blocks Social Media Access in Multiple Afghan Provinces ……………. The Taliban has imposed new internet restrictions in Afghanistan, blocking access to major social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, across several provinces. Residents in Kabul, Parwan, Balkh, Samangan, and…
Taliban’s Moscow Outreach Collides with Rising Violence at Home as UNICEF Flags Child Mental-Health Crisis

Taliban’s Moscow Outreach Collides with Rising Violence at Home as UNICEF Flags Child Mental-Health Crisis

The Taliban’s diplomatic push at this week’s Moscow Format meeting coincided with a surge in violent incidents across Afghanistan, including overnight airstrikes in Kabul and strikes in southeastern provinces, while the United Nations children’s agency warned of an accelerating mental-health…
Afghanistan Faces Deepening Humanitarian and Political Crisis amid Rising Child Malnutrition and Taliban Infighting

Afghanistan Faces Deepening Humanitarian and Political Crisis amid Rising Child Malnutrition and Taliban Infighting

Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is deteriorating sharply, with severe child malnutrition and collapsing healthcare systems coinciding with new social restrictions and widening internal rifts within the Taliban regime. According to a Sky News report, doctors in Badakhshan province say one child…
Taliban Free 72 Prisoners in Northern Afghanistan, Excluding Political Detainees

Taliban Free 72 Prisoners in Northern Afghanistan, Excluding Political Detainees

Taliban Free 72 Prisoners in Northern Afghanistan, Excluding Political Detainees …………… The Taliban have released 72 prisoners from a jail in Afghanistan’s northern Sar-e-Pul province, while reducing the sentences of 95 others, local sources told Amu News Agency. The sources…
Taliban Bans Teachers’ Day Celebrations, Deepening Hardship for Afghan Educators

Taliban Bans Teachers’ Day Celebrations, Deepening Hardship for Afghan Educators

Taliban Bans Teachers’ Day Celebrations, Deepening Hardship for Afghan Educators …………….. Afghanistan marked World Teachers’ Day on October 5 in silence this year, after the Taliban banned all forms of celebration. The international day, observed globally to honor educators, passed…
Thousands of Afghan Children Orphaned After Quakes as UN and Aid Agencies Urge Urgent Assistance Amid Rising Human Rights Concerns

Thousands of Afghan Children Orphaned After Quakes as UN and Aid Agencies Urge Urgent Assistance Amid Rising Human Rights Concerns

Thousands of children in eastern Afghanistan have been left orphaned or displaced following a series of powerful earthquakes that devastated Kunar and Nangarhar provinces last month. In the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquakes that shook Afghanistan, aid groups warn…
New Taliban Restriction Targets Women’s Education and Communication

New Taliban Restriction Targets Women’s Education and Communication

New Taliban Restriction Targets Women’s Education and Communication ——————- Afghan media have reported that some officials from the Taliban’s Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs have urged families during Friday sermons to confiscate the smartphones of women and girls. According…
Amnesty Condemns Taliban’s Forced Confession of Journalist Mehdi Ansari as ‘Shameful’ Tactic

Amnesty Condemns Taliban’s Forced Confession of Journalist Mehdi Ansari as ‘Shameful’ Tactic

Amnesty International has sharply condemned the Taliban’s “shameful smear campaign” against Afghan journalist Mehdi Ansari, emphasizing that the publication of his forced confession is a repetitive method used by autocratic regimes. The organization labeled the Taliban’s trial of Ansari, a…
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