The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Human rights groups are reacting with fury after a further curtailing of women’s rights in Afghanistan. New laws brought in last month impose severe new restrictions on women that oblige them to not only cover their faces, but also forbid them from raising their voices or reading aloud in public.…

A suicide bombing in Kabul leaves six dead and thirteen injured, sparking concerns about security. Authorities respond swiftly as the international communi...

This brave journalist and young women like her are bearing the brunt of the failed democratisation project: ‘Hope is fading’

Allies of the former president also jumped to defend him on the Sunday morning political shows, with Senator Lindsey Graham saying: ‘You know what really is unfortunate? That these families had to go visit their fallen loved ones at Arlington due to incompetence by the Biden administration’

Letters: Simon Diggins on offering resettlement and educational opportunities to those living under the Taliban regime and Margaret Owen on connecting schoolgirls in Britain and Kabul

Ahmad Massoud leads the National Resistance Front in Afghanistan against the Taliban, advocating for international support and a shift in approach to comba...

After a 25-year military career, including four tours in Afghanistan, former Royal Navy nurse, Janine, is still caring for the Armed Forces…

Germany deported 28 Afghan nationals, sparking criticism and safety concerns. A deadly knife attack involving a Syrian asylum seeker prompts tighter laws a...

Karen Meredith said the fact that a Trump campaign staffer pushed a cemetery worker near son's grave 'appalls me'

After the fall of the Taliban, more than 21,000 Afghan evacuees submitted asylum applications; 3,100 were able to extend their temporary protected status through May 2025

The oppression of Afghan women continues unabated before the eyes of the world. The Taliban imposed severe new restrictions earlier this month, with women not only obliged to cover their faces but now forbidden from raising their voices, singing or reading aloud in public. Western countries – led by the…