Afghanistan

Male students have trickled back to their classes after universities reopened in Afghanistan following a winter break, but women remain barred by the ruling Taliban. The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed…

Nine security officers were killed and at least 13 others were wounded today, Moday, during a bomb attack in southwest Pakistan. The blast happened in Balochistan province when the officers were returning to the provincial capital Quetta, after policing the…

At least 80 Afghan men, women and children lost their lives last month in a shipwreck off the Italian coast as they attempted to find a new haven. The Afghan migrants, fleeing the Taliban regime at home and feeling neglected…

The international organization of Shia rights watch, has recorded 41 terrorist attacks against Shia Muslims and the followers of Ahl Al Beit (peace be upon them) in 6 different countries worldwide during the past month of February, confirming the escalating…

Refugees are reportedly dying in Pakistani prisons, and children are being arrested and tied together with ropes, as a wave of detentions and deportations spreads fearamong the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have crossed the border since the Taliban…

Dozens of Afghan migrants in Islamabad on Monday said they have protested for more than three weeks in front of the Society for Human Rights and Prisoners’ Aid (SHARP) Office, however, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has…

The office of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, distributed large quantities of winter clothes to dozens of students of religious sciences and orphaned children. The office said…

At least 60 migrants have been killed after the vessel carrying them sunk off the coast of Italy. The Italian coast guard spotted about 30 bodies after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas off the southern coast of…

A new report by Crisis Group warns against international donors cutting aid to Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s curbs on women’s education and ability to work at NGOs, instead arguing for Western countries to find a “liminal space…

On Tuesday, February 21, Taliban officials, in a meeting with journalists in the southern province of Helmand, announced a ban on all media outlets—including Taliban-run Radio Television of Helmand and Bakhtar News Agency —preparing and distributing photos and videos, according…