The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Witness heard gunfire and turned to see different patrol member with raised weapon and detainee shot dead, court hears

Social media users accuse media of hypocrisy in its coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine compared with other conflicts.

The photographer, who lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan, on his documentary series in which he cooks with families in countries ruined by war

Universities reopen six months after Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women have returned to classrooms.

Afghanistan’s main universities reopened on Saturday six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women returned to now-segregated classes.

Student Miles Routledge, from Birmingham, is a disaster tourist and has made his way to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion - after previously being 'evacuated' from Afghanistan

The United States on Friday issued new rules that would allow most commercial and financial transactions with Afghanistan while maintaining sanctions against the Taliban, in an effort to ease the flow of humanitarian aid and kickstart the paralyzed economy. Non-governmental organizations and financial institutions have expressed concerns about running afoul…

Students have returned to Kabul University, among Afghanistan's oldest and most revered institutions of higher education

The U.S. Treasury on Friday issued a new general license allowing international aid organizations and private firms to conduct commercial and financial transactions with Afghan government institutions.

The Biden administration is seeking to assure financial institutions and other businesses that U.S. sanctions on the Taliban aren’t intended to interfere with trade that could help Afghanistan emerge from an economic and humanitarian crisis

Afghanistan is inching closer towards economic collapse six months after the Taliban seized power, the Red Cross said on Friday, with a paralysed banking system stymieing international efforts to get financial aid into the war-ravaged country.