Afghanistan

A powerful earthquake has killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban appealed for international help for the rescue effort as pictures showed landslides and ruined mud-built homes in the province of Paktika. The quake…

Al-Rasool al-Adham Charitable Foundation, under the supervision of the Shirazi Religious Authority office in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, in cooperation with the Ahlulbayt Charitable Foundation in Kuwait, opened a well for drinking water in the city. Members of the…

The High Commissioner for Human Rights emphasized that the people of Afghanistan are experiencing some of the darkest moments of a generation, as the country plunged into a deep economic, social, humanitarian and human rights crisis following years of conflict.…

The Taliban movement issued instructions forbidding the teaching of Jafari jurisprudence at Bamiyan University in the Afghan Shia province of Bamiyan. Muhammad Muhaqiq, head of the Islamic Unity Party, said that the Hanafi jurisprudence at Bamiyan University has replaced the…

Shias in Afghanistan live under the threat of terrorism, starvation and deliberate marginalization due to the policies of the Taliban regime.The Taliban movement, which claims to have restored Islamic law to Afghanistan, implements a clear policy of discrimination and marginalization…

Shia Rights Watch expresses its strong condemnation of the irresponsible attack by the Taliban movement in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, against one of the offices of the Shia religious authorities, warning against the consequences of such actions against Shias. The organization…

The Sayyed al-Shuhada Committee, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority, has begun building the first Husseiniyah and Islamic center in the Himalayas in Afghanistan, adjacent to the mountainous borders of China. In a statement received by Shia Waves News Agency,…

About two dozen Afghan women chanting “bread, work, freedom” protested in the capital on Sunday against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights. “Education is my right! Reopen schools!” chanted the protesters, many of them wearing face-covering veils, as they…

In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the U.N., as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children are brought into hospital wards. U.N. and other…

At least 14 people were killed and 32 others wounded in four explosions that rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday, authorities said. In Kabul, at least five worshippers were killed and 17 others wounded after…