The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

PHILADELPHIA — Abdullah Amarkhail left everything behind in his home country of Afghanistan — his family, his friends, his career.

Call for funding grows for diplomatically isolated Afghanistan, which is facing disasters because of climate change.

Richard Fierro, a veteran of four tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, beat the suspect with his own handgun while a trans woman stomped on him

Nineteen people were publicly lashed in northeastern Afghanistan this month, the Taliban supreme court said on Monday, among the first major signs of the ruling group applying its strict interpretation of sharia (Islamic law) to criminal justice.

Key crossing at Chaman reopened a week after Afghan gunman killed a Pakistani security guard there.

KABUL, Afghanistan — There's a comforting immutability to the way Waheed Merzazadah prepares for his day's work: the methodical cutting of the sheep carcasses down to the right size, the readying of the vegetables and spices, the patient poring over of his well-worn collection of chainaks, or teapots. Watching him…

When nine-year-old Naza Alakija left Iran with her mother, they were stopped by morality police because she was not wearing a hijab. The experience made her aware of her body at a young age. As an adult, Alakija founded the SAGE foundation, an NGO dedicated to education, women's empowerment and…

More Afghans will be struggling for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead, a top official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in an interview, as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule. The group’s seizure of power in August 2021 sent…

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

KABUL, Afghanistan — The first thing you see walking out of Kabul's airport is a billboard advertising Chinatown, which, if you visit, turns out to be a plain, off-white trio of 10-story towers in the Afghan capital's Taimani district. On the ground floor are shops selling Chinese products, including lights,…

Refugee was turned away from citizenship ceremony and became trapped in bureaucratic nightmare thanks to authorities’ mistrust of Afghan identity documents