Afghanistan

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous terrorist attack on innocent students and children at the religious school in Aybak, in the Samangan province, Afghanistan, on 30 November. The attack resulted in the deaths…

The United Nations called on Taliban movement to restore all rights and freedoms to women. The Taliban banned women last month from entering parks and gyms in Kabul, accusing them of violating Islamic law in the capital.  A spokesman for…

A total of 300 people, most of them children, have been infected with whooping cough in Zabul province, in southern Afghanistan, and two children have died from the disease, according to Abdul Hakim Hakimi, director of public health in the…

At least 19 people were killed and 24 others wounded Wednesday by a blast at a madrassa in Afghanistan’s northern city of Aybak, a doctor at a local hospital told AFP. There have been dozens of blasts and attacks targeting…

The Taliban movement plans to increase religious schools in Afghanistan, which constitutes the movement’s investment in graduating new generations who believe in the movement’s ideology, as the Ministry of Education of the Taliban movement plans to build a large religious…

UN experts have demanded an investigation into the suppression of women’s rights in Afghanistan as a form of gender persecution as the situation of women in Afghanistan has been deteriorating with every passing day due to Taliban’s suppression of basic…

A team of experts from the United Nations announced that Taliban’s treatment of women may amount to crimes against humanity and must be investigated and held accountable under international law. The United Nations experts said, in a statement, that Taliban’s…

Confirmed reports have been received from Afghanistan that the village of “Seok Sheber” in the Nili district of the “Daykundi” province, which has a Shia majority of the Hazara nationality, was subjected to a brutal campaign on Thursday, November 24,…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it has recorded a sharp rise in malnutrition cases among children in Afghanistan with the onset of winter and the worsening economic crisis. The committee stated, in a report published on…

As part of its ongoing humanitarian initiatives, the Al-Mustafa Cultural and Charitable Foundation, affiliated with the Supreme Religious Authority in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, gifted quantities of winter clothes to poor families living in the poor neighborhoods of the…