Afghanistan

Four people, all civilians, were injured when an explosion rocked the city of Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province in…

In the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq Al-Husseini Al-Shirazi, in the Afghan capital,…

Foreign aid groups halt work after Taliban bans on female staff

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration has ordered all local and foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to stop female employees from coming to work,…

Counter-terrorism experts have raised concerns about the difficulty of tracking ISIS fighters in the future after reports some of them…

Since retaking power, the Taliban have reinstated draconian curbs on women’s rights in Afghanistan. The most recent move, banning women…

The United Nations Secretary General urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to include all ethnic groups in the government, restore girls’ rights…

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry has said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until…

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, called on the Afghan Taliban movement to work in order to prevent…

At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the…