The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

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Places for Afghan nationals had previously been allocated within the overall humanitarian program, which is capped at 13,750 a year

Afghan children and teenagers have not had much to look forward to since the Taliban took power in August last year. They have endured six months of uncertainty, anxiety and fear as they waited to see what Taliban rule would bring for them.

Taliban hard-liners are turning back the clock in Afghanistan with a flurry of repressive edicts over the past days that hark back to their harsh rule from the late 1990s

The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern over a decision by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to deny girls access to high school education and called on the group to reopen schools for female students without delay. "The members of the Security Council ...

Assistant defence minister tells court he was troubled by ‘warrior culture’ in elite SAS regiment when he and Roberts-Smith were comrades in Afghanistan

Officials from Afghanistan's Ariana Afghan airlines and Kam Air say the Taliban have ordered them to stop boarding women if they are travelling alone, as female students also remain locked out of secondary schools.

The Taliban have banned BBC television news in three main languages of Afghanistan from being broadcast, the British news organisation said.

The UN Security Council has expressed concern over the Taliban's decision to ban girls from attending school above the sixth grade in Afghanistan.