Afghanistan

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today, that 44 countries, including Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan, will need external assistance for food, indicating that conflicts and droughts have exacerbated the conditions of food insecurity in the world.The Rome-based organization…

The President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon considered that Afghanistan is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, warning of mass starvation with the onset of the cold season.“Afghanistan today is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, and with the…

The Minister of Emigrants and Displaced Persons in the former Afghan government and a member of the Shia Scholars Council in Afghanistan, Sayyed Hussein Alami Balkhi, warned that the aggravation of poverty provides an opportunity for ISIS terrorists to recruit…

The UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan has warned that the country is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe and 60 percent of the population is facing critical levels of hunger.Deborah Lyons, the UN special envoy to Afghanistan, said the…

At least three people were killed and others injured in an explosion targeting a passenger bus in the west of the Afghan capital, local media reported.According to preliminary data, the accident occurred in Dashti-Parchi district in the western part of…

Humanitarian workers in Afghanistan have warned that “one in four pregnant women and one in two children” suffer from malnutrition in the country, and half of the people do not know where their next meal will come from.The United Nations…

Local news sources reported that an explosion occurred in the Kot Sangi area, west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday.Jamhour News Agency reported that an explosion occurred earlier today in the Kot Sangi area of the Fifth District of…

A bomb exploded on a mini-bus Saturday on a busy commercial street in a Kabul neighborhood mainly populated by members of Afghanistan’s minority Hazara community, emergency workers and the bus driver said. At least one person was killed and five…

The World Health Organization has warned that malnutrition threatens the lives of nearly one million Afghan children.WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said about 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year,…

Four women have been found dead in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Saturday, following reports that activists had been killed.Two suspects have been arrested after the four bodies were found at a…