The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Three weeks into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, the global aid sector is in disarray as Washington reviews its foreign aid policy to ensure it aligns with the America First agenda. Funds have been frozen or slashed while the USAID agency is being dismantled.

Donald Trump told a journalist from Afghanistan he could not understand her “beautiful accent” when she asked him a question at his joint press conference with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, 4 February.

Taliban suspends Radio Begum, Afghanistan's women's radio station, impacting women's education and media freedom.

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled Afghanistan amid fears of arrest.

It has taken decades for some to accept the devastating effects of climate change on our planet. Despite scientific evidence that was available years ago, many people were reluctant to make the connection between increasing use of fossil fuels, rising global temperatures and devastating weather events.

Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girls

Pakistani police say unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year

UN contractor injured in attack

The actor and TV presenter smashed up his mum’s copy of Carmen as a child and now plays jazz standards to his kids, but which Green Day song reminds him of Afghanistan?

A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of the Taliban authorities' push to capitalise on the country's rich mineral resources.

Fighters reportedly fire at a vehicle carrying Frontier Corps paramilitaries trying to dismantle a roadblock.