In a renewed and intensified assault on women's freedoms, the Taliban has launched a wave of arbitrary arrests across Afghanistan, targeting women and girls accused of violating the group’s extreme ...
In the annual report of the research, dated December 31, 2025, it was noted that after Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Haiti, and Burundi had the lowest ratings regarding women's safety and their rights.
Over the course of six months, photographer Kiana Hayeri and researcher Melissa Cornet created a portrait of the lives of Afghan women under the strict regime of the Taliban. In a country facing one ...
Afghanistan has pulled out of an upcoming cricket series after three players in a local tournament were killed in an air strike it blamed Pakistan for. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said it ...
Exactly sixty-six years after his German Dornier 217E dive bomber unloaded nearly 4,000 kgs of bombs on the city of Bath, he came back to say sorry. Mr. Willi Schludecker, now 87, one of the Luftwaffe ...
Fresh violence has broken out in Khash district of Badakhshan province, where armed clashes between Taliban forces and local residents have resulted in at least seven deaths and more than 40 injuries, ...
Women forced back to living under the Taliban’s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of their desperation as Iran accelerates the deportation of an estimated 4 million Afghans who had fled to ...
Local sources in Kabul report that the dismembered body of a woman was discovered in the Kabul River. The incident reportedly occurred on Sunday, January 14, 2026, in the Chehelston area of Kabul, ...
Abdulmutalib Haqqani, spokesperson for the Ministry, told TOLOnews: "During this period, 24,787 families returned from Pakistan, 1,251 families from Iran, and 6 families from Turkey." Among the ...
Local sources in Takhar’s Chah Ab district say that Farkhunda, a 17-year-old girl who married the son of a powerful local figure about a month and a half ago, has been killed under suspicious ...
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned chess until further notice due to fears the game is a source of gambling. Officials said the game has been prohibited indefinitely until its ...
More than 200 Afghan soldiers and police murdered by the Taliban since a “kill list” was leaked by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have been named in a dossier. Their names were compiled by independent ...