KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least 280 people were killed and 595 injured after an earthquake struck Afghansitan's Paktika province early on Wednesday, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported. Some 255 people lost their lives in Barmal, Ziruk, Naka and Gayan districts of Paktika province, the...
Burqa-clad women walk along a street in Kandahar on May 7, 2022. The Taliban on May 7 imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since they seized power, ordering them to cover fully in public, ideally with the traditional burqa. Javed TANVEER / AFP KABUL, Afghanistan -- The...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- The United Nations secretary-general on Saturday slammed a bomb blast in the Afghan capital the day before that ripped through a mosque and killed at least 10 worshippers. "The Secretary-General strongly condemns yesterday's deadly attack on the Khalifa Sahib Mosque...
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- At least 33 people were killed and 43 others wounded after a blast rocked a mosque in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz on Friday, chief spokesman of the Taliban-led caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid said. "We are saddened to learn that an explosion took place...
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban forces have arrested a suspected Islamic State militant who allegedly planned a bomb attack that killed at least 12 worshippers at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan, police said Friday. IS has claimed responsibility for the bomb blast that tore through the Seh Dokan...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least 16 people were killed in bomb blasts in two Afghan cities on Thursday -- attacks claimed by the Islamic State group (IS). Since Taliban fighters seized control of Afghanistan last year after ousting the US-backed government, the number of bombings has fallen but the...
The Philippines has pledged over P5-million aid to support the humanitarian response in Afghanistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday, April 5. Permanent Representative Evan P. Garcia (Photo courtesy of DFA) It was disclosed that the Philippines announced the voluntary...
GENEVA, Switzerland – The United Nations urged the world to stand by Afghanistan at a pledging conference on Thursday where it is seeking a record $4.4 billion in humanitarian assistance to the broken country. The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on August 15 amid the hasty withdrawal of...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from flying unless accompanied by a male relative, in the latest crackdown on basic human rights by the country's new rulers since seizing power. The hardline Islamists have imposed sweeping restrictions on...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- About two dozen girls and women chanting "open the schools" protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban's ecision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week. Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States said Friday that it has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls' secondary schools. "We have cancelled some of our engagements, including planned meetings in Doha around the Doha...
WASHINGTON, United States – The United States and other Western countries on Thursday condemned the Taliban's decision to shut girls secondary schools in Afghanistan just hours after reopening them, and urged the hardline Islamist movement to reverse course. The joint statement from the...
