Afghanistan

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…

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, joined on Thursday the heads of other humanitarian organizations in calling on Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to reverse its directive that restricts women from working with non-governmental organizations.   “Preventing women from…

Four people, all civilians, were injured when an explosion rocked the city of Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province in northern Afghanistan, amid a continuous decline in the security situation since the Taliban seized power. “It was a mine explosion,…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, has strongly condemned the practices of the Taliban group and its recent decisions against Afghan women and preventing women from working in non-governmental relief organizations and institutions, appealing to the international community to play…