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Taliban reject UN concerns over laws banning women's voices and bare faces in public
The Taliban is rejecting concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public.
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Afghan sisters set to make Olympic history in the women's road race
Fariba Hashimi and Yulduz Hashimi will make history as the first Afghan cyclists when they compete in the women’s road race at the 2024 Paris Games.
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Flash floods kill more than 300 people in northern Afghanistan after heavy rains, UN says
The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan.
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Russian private jet carrying six people believed to have crashed in Afghanistan. Rescue underway
From Moscow, Russian civil aviation authorities said a Dassault Falcon 10 went missing with four crew members and two passengers
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Afghanistan rocked by fourth major earthquake in eight days
Afghanistan was hit with a 6.3-magnitude earthquake Sunday, the fourth earthquake of that magnitude in just over a week.
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More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says
U.N. officials say more than 90% of the more than 2,000 people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan were women and children.
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Western Afghanistan rocked by 6.3 earthquake days after earlier quake killed over 2,000
Another strong earthquake has shaken part of western Afghanistan where a quake killed more than 2,000 on Saturday.
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Earthquakes kill over 2,000 in Afghanistan. People are using bare hands to recover dead and injured
A Taliban government spokesperson says the death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has jumped to more than 2,000.
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He spoke no English, had no lawyer. An Afghan man's case offers a glimpse into US immigration court
The case of an Afghan man who represented himself in U.S. immigration court offers a rare look in that system’s proceedings.
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Afghan soldier who was arrested at US-Mexico border after fleeing Taliban wins asylum
Abdul Wasi Safi, 27, is one of tens of thousands of Afghan citizens who fled to the U.S. following the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan in August 2021.
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Taliban face no major opposition to rule 2 years after US withdrawal. Women and girls pay the harshest price.
After two years in power, the Taliban are entrenched as rulers of Afghanistan, facing no significant opposition that could topple them.
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A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 44 people and wounds nearly 200
An explosion at a political rally on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 in a Sunday attack that a senior leader called aimed at weakening the Islamist party.
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Scholarships have helped displaced Afghan students find homes on university campuses across the US
Those fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept back into power two years ago included university students. They worried the only way they’d be able to continue their education would be to leave their homeland. Their fears were justified when the Taliban returned to a harsh Islamic rule banning women from universities and most employment. As Kabul fell in August 2021,...
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The Afghan Taliban say they banned beauty salons because they offered forbidden services
The Taliban says beauty salons have been banned in Afghanistan because they offered services forbidden by Islam and caused economic hardships for grooms’ families.
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More than a thousand civilians were killed after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, UN says
The United Nations says it has documented a significant level of civilian casualties from attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
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Afghan teen's Virginia graduation speech honors girls left behind
Less than two years after fleeing Afghanistan with her family before Kabul fell to the Taliban, a young woman credits the plight of girls in her home country for motivating her to graduate high school in Loudoun County, Virginia.