Afghanistan

Girls as young as 16 have been arrested across the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the past week for violating the Taliban’s hijab rules, The Guardian reported. The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets –…

A powerful earthquake hit northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, shaking buildings from the capital Kabul all the way to Islamabad and Delhi. The epicenter of the 6.4-magnitude earthquake was in Jurm district in the Afghan province of Badakhshan in the mountainous…

Afghanistan is grappling with a severe climate crisis, marked by its third consecutive year of drought-like conditions, reported the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) on Monday. This follows the worst year-round drought in 30 years…

The United Nations has urged Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to bring to justice the perpetrators of an overnight deadly minibus bombing in Kabul that targeted members of the minority Hazara-Shiite community. Saturday’s attack in the western Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of the Afghan…

A bomb blast ripped through a minibus in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, Saturday evening, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred in the city’s western Dasht-e-Barchi Shiite Muslim…

Amnesty International demanded the Taliban immediately cease their crackdown on women in Afghanistan, including “the detention of those not complying with stringent dress codes requiring only their eyes to be visible”. The global rights group condemned these actions as severe…

As part of its humanitarian activities, the Orphans House —one of the centres affiliated to Sayyeda Fatima al-Zahra Complex in the Afghan capital Kabul—has distributed heaters to tens of disadvantaged families recorded on its list. The humanitarian campaign was carried…

Two online universities in the UK and the US say the ban on women’s education has led tens of thousands of Afghan girls to turn to their online educational programs. According to them, business and English language courses are among…

The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) says in an annual report that in 2023, 168 incidents of journalists’ rights violations occurred in Afghanistan, including the arrest of 61 journalists by the Taliban. The center highlighted that these incidents predominantly involved killings,…

Concerns about the situation of Afghan refugees being deported from Pakistan and their uncertain fate are increasing every day, with thousands forcibly repatriated to Afghanistan empty-handed, the World Food Program (WFP) said. WFP published a video on Wednesday of an…