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Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders along with 14 French media outlets and production companies are calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to release a journalist imprisoned for a month in Kabul

Fed up with the traffic, afraid of street crime and hooked on Twitter, Taliban fighters who left their villages and rode into Kabul after decades of war are struggling with the daily grind of city life.

Many refugees and asylum-seekers are literally left out in the cold for months as the European Union fails to get its migration system working properly.

Washing clothes in the snow, heating homes with scavenged trash, Afghan families struggle to survive

A court found that the Netherlands' bombing of a complex in Afghanistan violated international humanitarian law. The Dutch government will not appeal the ruling.

The Dutch government says it will not appeal a court ruling that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, killing some 20 civilians, in a civil case

The Dutch government says it will not appeal a court ruling that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, killing some 20 civilians, in a civil case.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions on Taliban officials who were involved in the decision to ban women and girls from higher education.

The Kabul Attack Network carried out a number of attacks around the capital city and may have received funding from the Taliban, al Qaeda and Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Afghans fleeing the Taliban and unable to enter the U.S. have resorted to journeying through South and Central America to reach the U.S.-Mexico border.

Shop owners in Afghanistan were forced to decapitate their mannequins or remove them all together. They pleaded to veil their faces instead.

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the Taliban’s ban on women aid workers in Afghanistan is “a potential death blow” to many important humanitarian programs

The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Monday that the Taliban's ban on women aid workers in Afghanistan is “a potential death blow” to many important humanitarian programs. If the Taliban don’t make exceptions to their edict “this would be catastrophic,” Martin Griffiths said at a news conference.

“We don’t have time,” U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said. “The winter is with us, people are dying, famine is looming.”

The Taliban are doubling down on their ban on women’s education, reinforcing in a message to private universities that Afghan women are barred from taking university entry exams

The Taliban on Saturday doubled down on their ban on women's education, reinforcing in a message to private universities that Afghan women are barred from taking university entry exams, according to a spokesman. The note comes despite weeks of condemnation and lobbying by the international community for a reversal on measures restricting women's freedoms, including two back-to-back visits this month by several senior U.N. officials. It also bodes ill for hopes that the Taliban could take steps to reverse their edicts anytime soon.

I was ready to kill myself after getting PTSD fighting in Afghanistan. I turned everything around and now the Mighty Oaks Foundation lets me help others.

A Virginia man previously convicted of trying to help ISIS is accused of meeting with 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh.

A spokesman for the World Food Program says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs with half the country enduring severe hunger throughout the year

A spokesman for the World Food Program says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs with half the country enduring severe hunger throughout the year.

Heads of major aid groups are pressing the Taliban to reverse their decision to ban Afghan women from working for national and international nongovernmental groups

The highest-ranking woman at the United Nations says she used everything in her “toolbox” during meetings with Taliban ministers to try to reverse their crackdown on Afghan women and girls.

The U.N. humanitarian chief and leaders of two major international aid organizations are in Afghanistan following last week’s visit by a delegation led by the U.N.’s highest-ranking woman with the same aim

A delegation led by the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations has urged the Taliban during a four-day visit to Afghanistan to reverse their crackdown on women and girls

Two senior, Muslim women from the global body visited Afghanistan to push the hardline group to restore women's rights. Not everyone they met was willing to engage.

Officials say militants armed with assault rifles and hand grenades stormed a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, triggering a shootout that killed three officers and wounded two

Taliban officials say 78 people have died in just over a week during Afghanistan’s harsh winter, adding to the country’s humanitarian crisis

The highest-ranking woman in the United Nations has arrived in Kabul at the head of a U.N. delegation promoting the rights of women and girls

A provincial official in Afghanistan says nine men were lashed in public as punishment for different crimes

Tributes are flooding in for former Afghan female lawmaker who was shot and killed inside her home by a gunmen. Authorities say that one of her body guards was also killed.

Tributes are pouring in for a former Afghan female lawmaker who was shot and killed by gunmen in her home in the capital of Kabul

Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women's dress shops across the Afghan capital are a puzzling sight, their heads sometimes covered in silk, cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.

Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags. The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan. Initially, the Taliban wanted the mannequins to be outright beheaded.

The Taliban's spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, shared a video on Sunday of the Mada 9 car doing donuts in the snow.

Police say a former Afghan female lawmaker and her bodyguard were shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the capital, Kabul

The U_N_ says comments from Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled central bank about cash shipments for humanitarian work are “misleading and unhelpful.”

The Taliban's ban on female aid workers is posing one of the biggest policy challenges over Afghanistan for the United States and other countries since the American military withdrawal in 2021 opened the door for the Taliban takeover.

The vast majority of U.N. Security Council members are urging Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately reverse all “oppressive” restrictions on girls and women

The vast majority of U.N. Security Council members are urging Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately reverse all “oppressive” restrictions on girls and women including the latest ban on woman working for humanitarian organizations which is exacerbating the already critical humanitarian crisis in the country.

Australia has pulled out of an upcoming men’s one-day international cricket series against Afghanistan.

An explosion near the Afghan foreign ministry killed five people and wounded several others, a Taliban police spokesman said. It was the second prominent attack in the capital so far in 2023.

A Taliban police spokesman said that those killed in the blast were civilians and that many others were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

A police spokesman in Kabul says an explosion near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital has killed five civilians and wounded a number of others

Abbas Alizada, known online as "Afghanistan’s Bruce Lee” for his uncanny resemblance to the late legendary martial artist, recently recalled his troubling experience after the Taliban retook control of his country in 2021. Speaking to The Star, Alizada, 29, shared the hardships he had to endure after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August 2021 and the subsequent departure of the United States government following a 20-year occupation. As a martial artist, online star and a member of the Taliban-persecuted Hazara ethnic group, Alizada said the Taliban’s control of the country forced him to go into hiding for more than a year.

Recent edicts by ultraconservatives based in Kandahar overrode the wishes of some Taliban officials in the capital and in the provinces.

Protesters in southern Afghanistan have gathered following Prince Harry’s claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people while serving in the country

Protesters in southern Afghanistan on Sunday gathered following Prince Harry's claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people he described as Taliban fighters while posted with British forces in the country. Around 20 faculty and students demonstrated at a local university in Helmand, the province where British forces were largely concentrated during the NATO and U.S.-led coalition operations in Afghanistan. “We condemn his (Prince Harry’s) action which is against all norms of humanity," one demonstrator said.

An aid agency chief has told The Associated Press that the Taliban’s “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan

An aid agency chief has told The Associated Press that the Taliban's “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan.

The U.N. says one of its top officials has met with the Taliban-led government’s higher education minister, who ordered a ban on women in Afghan universities last month

The U.N. says one of its top officials has met with the Taliban-led government's higher education minister, who ordered a ban on women in Afghan universities last month.

Prince Harry’s assertion that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan has drawn criticism from both enemies and allies.

Among the many revelations in the memoir is Harry's disclosure that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while on deployment in Afghanistan with the British Army.

Prince Harry details his military service in his new memoir, "Spare."

The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in raids against the militants’ hideouts in Afghanistan

Major international aid agencies suspended operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban banned women from working for nongovernmental organizations in a series of measures rolling back women's rights.

The decision by the Taliban government to bar women from NGO work has prompted major international aid agencies to suspend operations in the country.

The decision by the Taliban government to bar women from NGO work has prompted major international aid agencies to suspend operations in the country.

A spokesman for the Taliban-led government says a bombing at a military airport checkpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed and wounded several people.

The U.N. says one of its top officials in Afghanistan has met the Taliban’s deputy prime minister to discuss a ban on women working at nongovernmental groups

The U.N. says one of its top officials in Afghanistan has met the Taliban's deputy prime minister to discuss a ban on women working at nongovernmental groups.

A spokesman for the Taliban-led government says a bombing at a military airport checkpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed and wounded several people.

Aid agencies are warning that Afghans will die because of the Taliban order banning women from working at nongovernmental groups.

Four major international aid groups say they will suspend their operations in Afghanistan following a decision by the country’s Taliban rulers to ban women from working at non-governmental organizations.

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups to suspend employing women.

The minister of higher education in the Taliban government has broken his silence over his decision to ban women from universities.

Taliban security forces in Afghanistan's capital city are upholding a higher education ban for women by blocking access to university campuses.

The Taliban have released two American detainees held in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned female students from universities effective immediately.

China has advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible,” following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul.

A Taliban official says a hotel catering to foreign visitors in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul was attacked and three of the assailants were killed.

Batool Haidari was a prominent professor of sexology at a university in Kabul before last year’s Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

A Taliban official says that at least 10 students were killed when a bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan.

A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions.

An Afghan Supreme Court official says 19 people were lashed in the country's northeast after being convicted of adultery, theft and running away from home.

A Taliban official says women are banned from using gyms in Afghanistan.

A U.K.-based nonprofit says the Taliban captured, bound, and shot 27 men to death in Afghanistan's Panjshir province last month as part of their operations against resistance forces in the area.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $1.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide.

A suicide bomber has struck at a center of Taliban power, setting off a blast at a government ministry building in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

A tally compiled by The Associated Press shows that last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than double the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials.

A group of Afghan women has protested a suicide bombing that killed or wounded dozens of students in a Shiite education center in the capital Kabul, demanding better security from the Taliban-run government.

A Taliban spokesman says a suicide bomber has killed 19 people and wounded 27 at an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital.

Pakistan’s foreign minister is recommending cooperation with the Taliban even though many U.S. officials say Afghanistan’s ruling faction has proved unworthy of it.

The Taliban say a car bombing near a Kabul mosque killed at least seven people and wounded 41, including several children.

An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released.

The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”.

The Biden administration will transfer $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to benefit the Afghan people as hunger grips every province there.

A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one civilian in a rare attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.

An Afghan woman has put out a video on social media accusing a senior Taliban official of forcing her into marriage and raping her repeatedly.

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine.

An Afghan Sikh family of 13 has found refuge in the diaspora community on Long Island.

More than a year after the Taliban takeover that saw thousands of people rushing to Kabul’s international airport amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal, Afghans who failed to get on evacuation flights say they are still struggling to find safe and legal ways out of the country.

A Taliban police spokesman in Afghanistan’s capital says the toll from a mosque bombing the previous evening has risen to 21 people killed with 33 others wounded in the attack.

An Afghan resident and police say that a bombing at a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27.

A year after America’s tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines.

The Taliban are marking a year since they seized the Afghan capital of Kabul.

On the eve of the anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan’s former president has defended what he says was a split-second decision to flee.

A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country.

The Biden administration is holding out the CIA operation that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri as a monumental strike against the global terror network responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001.

The U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri is intensifying global scrutiny of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers.