The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days

Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, they have banned education for women and girls beyond sixth grade and most employment

Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many United Nations organizations to cut staff, budgets and services in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and even the United States

INTERVIEW: Richard Bennett tells Arpan Rai Afghans escaping Taliban rule to Britain are classic examples of refugees

More than three years after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, women say daily life is difficult

The global illicit drugs trade is estimated to be worth at least half a trillion US dollars each year. Drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin generate large revenues all along their supply chains, from where the products (and precursor materials) are grown or made – principally Colombia and Bolivia,…

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has praised the “sacrifice” of British troops who were killed fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq

Sir Keir Starmer’s tribute to personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan came after JD Vance’s comments about troops from a ‘random country’.

An Islamic State operative who allegedly planned the 2021 suicide bombing outside Kabul airport during the chaotic US military withdrawal has been arrested, President Donald Trump has said.

Sir Keir Starmer opened Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 5 March — his first since Donald Trump’s explosive meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky — with a dig at JD Vance by paying tribute to the hundreds of British soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Prime Minister has made an apparent dig towards US vice president JD Vance over his comments regarding British troops.