Afghanistan

Nearly 20 million people in Afghanistan are acutely food-insecure, including more than 6 million people on the brink of famine-like conditions in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency), according to WFP. 4 million people are acutely malnourished, including 3.2 million children under…

Afghan education authorities have organised graduation exams for high school girls across much of the country despite most of them being barred from attending classes since the Taliban’s return to power last year, according to media outlets. The education ministry…

Experts blamed poor Taliban governance and international policies for the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan where more than 90 percent of the households go hungry, says a report published on Monday. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has already described this…

With the sharp drop in temperatures, the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayywd Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, announced today, Tuesday, the distribution of fuel to poor families in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The office of the…

A roadside bomb killed seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial police spokesman said. “The bomb was placed in a cart by the roadside. It was detonated as the bus arrived,” said Asif…

Years have gone by, generations passed, but nothing has changed for women in Afghanistan, who continue to face atrocities under the Taliban. Yet another evidence of barbarity against women surfaced from the languishing country as a video showing brutal flogging…

In a statement issued today, Sunday, the Imam Shirazi World Foundation (ISWF) warned of the escalation of violence in Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of dozens of innocent civilians, voicing its concern over the situation in the country. The statement,…

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…