Afghanistan

Taliban Blocks Social Media Access in Multiple Afghan Provinces ……………. The Taliban has imposed new internet restrictions in Afghanistan, blocking access to major social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, across several provinces. Residents in Kabul, Parwan, Balkh, Samangan, and…

The Taliban’s diplomatic push at this week’s Moscow Format meeting coincided with a surge in violent incidents across Afghanistan, including overnight airstrikes in Kabul and strikes in southeastern provinces, while the United Nations children’s agency warned of an accelerating mental-health…

Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is deteriorating sharply, with severe child malnutrition and collapsing healthcare systems coinciding with new social restrictions and widening internal rifts within the Taliban regime. According to a Sky News report, doctors in Badakhshan province say one child…

Taliban Free 72 Prisoners in Northern Afghanistan, Excluding Political Detainees …………… The Taliban have released 72 prisoners from a jail in Afghanistan’s northern Sar-e-Pul province, while reducing the sentences of 95 others, local sources told Amu News Agency. The sources…

Taliban Bans Teachers’ Day Celebrations, Deepening Hardship for Afghan Educators …………….. Afghanistan marked World Teachers’ Day on October 5 in silence this year, after the Taliban banned all forms of celebration. The international day, observed globally to honor educators, passed…

Thousands of children in eastern Afghanistan have been left orphaned or displaced following a series of powerful earthquakes that devastated Kunar and Nangarhar provinces last month. In the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquakes that shook Afghanistan, aid groups warn…

New Taliban Restriction Targets Women’s Education and Communication ——————- Afghan media have reported that some officials from the Taliban’s Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs have urged families during Friday sermons to confiscate the smartphones of women and girls. According…

Amnesty International has sharply condemned the Taliban’s “shameful smear campaign” against Afghan journalist Mehdi Ansari, emphasizing that the publication of his forced confession is a repetitive method used by autocratic regimes. The organization labeled the Taliban’s trial of Ansari, a…

Taliban Dismiss 90 Female Literacy Teachers in Nangarhar …………….. The Taliban have dismissed 90 female teachers working in adult literacy programs in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, local sources told Amu on Sunday. The teachers, employed under the Directorate of Education,…

Taliban Bars University Professors from Promotion Over Dress and Beard Rules …………….. The Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education has issued a directive denying academic promotions to university professors who fail to comply with the group’s dress and grooming requirements. According…