The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Ban comes days after Taliban-run government ordered universities to suspend classes for women until further notice.

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the latest crackdown on women's freedoms. The letter, confirmed by economy ministry spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib, said the female employees were not allowed…

Afghanistan is facing a perfect storm of threats, and climate change is pushing it to breaking point. The world seems unaware of the coming catastrophe, writes Mujib Ahmad Azizi

The Taliban has indefinitely banned women and girls from primary and higher education in measures that further curtail their rights.

Nicki Hart, a soldier with the Fourth Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, had been on tours abroad in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq. He was fond dead weeks before the birth of his baby

Shinwari, on Lady Lawson Street, opened in April and specialise in delicacies from Pakistan and Afghanistan. This week, the owners celebrated winning New Business of the Year 2022 at the Scottish Asian Business Awards

Ana Belén Montes, the convicted Cuba spy who is set to be released from prison in January, was willing to pass military secrets about the U.S. war in Afghanistan if requested by her spymasters in Havana, even if that resulted in the death of American soldiers on the ground, she…

Early this week, the leaders of Afghanistan declared that women could not attend university. Now there are fears the any education for girls is in jeopardy as some female teachers are sent home.

US secretary of state says Taliban is sentencing women and girls in Afghanistan to a ‘dark future without opportunity’.