Afghanistan

Hundreds of Afghan migrants, including women and children, have been released from a jail in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, Afghan officials said Saturday. Pakistani police in multiple raids last month detained at least 1,200 Afghan nationals who…

As the Taliban’s crackdown on journalists and media personnel continue in Afghanistan, numerous journalists in Paktia province on Friday criticized limited access to information and claimed that this has a negative influence on their operations as their basic rights to…

Pakistan said Thursday that a military counterterrorism raid in a remote region near Afghanistan’s border had killed at least 11 militants linked to a banned militant organization. The “Intelligence-based operation” in the South Waziristan district “successfully foiled a high-profile terrorist…

The Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, launched the third batch of fuel distribution to the needy in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. The director of the office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi in…

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck the Hindu Kush region in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, causing strong shaking in parts of the country, including the capital, Kabul, officials and witnesses said. The quake struck at a depth of…

Doctors and aid workers in Afghanistan say thousands of children are being hospitalized with pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses caused by the cold and malnutrition. Relief organizations say the crisis is likely to worsen, due to the continued deterioration of…

An informed source in Afghanistan said that 28 travelers, mostly from the Shia Hazara tribe, who were planning to travel from Afghanistan to Pakistan through smuggling, have disappeared at the borders of the two countries. Meanwhile, the source, who asked…

The National Security Committee (NSC) on Monday categorically asked Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, without directly naming them, to deny safe haven to Pakistani terrorist groups on its soil and end their patronage, while reiterating its intent to crush terrorist groups operating…

Afghanistan is receiving billions of dollars as humanitarian aid from across the globe. Is it being distributed to the needy at the grassroots level? No one is sure about the distribution system as complaints continue to pour in about locals…

Crisis in Afghanistan does not seem to die down as several people are under the grip of hunger and lack of basic amenities in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the Afghan land in August last year, TOLO news…