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Afganistan

Afghan women speak up against new Taliban media guidelines

Women journalists work in the newsroom of the Kabul Weekly in the early 2000s [File: Ahmad Masood/Reuters] Afghan journalists and...

Afghan Hazara elders promise support for Taliban rulers

Several bomb attacks in recent years have killed and wounded scores of Hazaras in Kabul and other cities. (Reuters) More than 1,00...

Taliban teetering on verge of economic collapse

Ever since the Taliban’s military takeover of Kabul, the Afghan economy has gone from bad to worse and could now be headed for a...

'Business as usual': Afghan drug trade continues under Tal...

Afghan police stand guard in a poppy field about to be destroyed outside Kandahar in 2004. (David Guttenfelder/AP) After...

Red Cross says Afghanistan sanctions behind 'infuriating'...

Afghan men wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organised by the World Food Programme, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturd...

UN urges action to avoid 'colossal' collapse of Afghan ban...

The United Nations has repeatedly warned since the Taliban took over that Afghanistan's economy is on the brink of a collapse. (HECTO...

China continues to offer aid, agricultural trade with Afgh...

Live streamer Li Jiaqi (right) works with CCTV reporter Wang Bingbing (center) to sell 120,000 cans of pine nuts from Afghanistan on...

Afghan Taliban begin paying salaries to govt employees

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Saturday they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck sin...

Taliban government is steadily consolidating

Visiting high-level Iranian officials (L) and Taliban authorities chaired by Deputy Acting Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Barada...

Afghan black market for visas thrives as embassies stay sh...

Afghans gather outside the passport office in Kabul on Oct. 6 after Taliban officials announced they would start issuing passports&...

Pakistan hosts US, China, Russia to discuss Afghanistan

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, centre, poses for a photograph with the special envoys from the United States, Russia and Chin...

Taliban replace statue of Hazara leader with Quran

The Taliban have replaced the statue of a Hazara leader declared a national martyr by the former government with a replica of the Koran...

China looks to Tajiks to spy Afghan terror risks

A Tajik frontier guard soldier patrols the border Pyandj river at the Afghan border not far from the town of Pyandj some 220 kilomete...

The Politics of Taliban Recognition

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with the Taliban Negotiation Team, in Doha, Qatar, on November 21, 2020. Nearly three m...

Taliban to enforce Islamic law in Afghanistan

Following the Taliban's return to power in August, the legal system remains paralysed and members are said to enforce law and order....

India hosts talks on Afghanistan, but no Afghan official i...

This photo provided by India's foreign ministry shows, from left, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhst...

Major win as Pakistan set to host US & Taliban for talks o...

Pakistan is set to host the US and the Taliban to discuss the Afghan crisis currently unfolding. China and Russia will also attend the...

Justice denied for the victims of Afghanistan’s Mai Lai ma...

Aimal, brother of Zemari Ahmadi, stands next to the wreckage of a vehicle hit by a US drone attack in Kabul on September 18, 2021 [Fi...

US recognition of Taliban Government will be a game change...

Pakistan extended a special invitation to Acting Interim Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi to attend the “Troik...

India bids to regain relevance in Afghanistan

Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will lead the upcoming conference in Delhi on Afghanistan. Photo: Screengrab India&rsq...

Afghan economy on verge of collapse

Afghanistan's economy is on the brink of collapse. And as the harsh Afghan winter sets in, many people are worried not only about how t...