The Latest Breaking News from Kabul

Founder Ann Kelleher the idea came to her while watching the heartbreaking scenes in Kabul after it was captured by the Taliban last year

Humanitarian agencies may have distributed enough aid in Afghanistan to avert famine and large-scale starvation, but the country's economic collapse is "approaching a point of irreversibility," the U.N. envoy to Kabul said on Wednesday.

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The Taliban have been carrying out extensive house searches around the Afghan capital, according to residents, a policy the group's spokesman said was to detect criminal activity but that some Western diplomats said had targeted ordinary citizens.

The Taliban have clamped down on Afghans leaving the country as, separately, their forces continue a massive security sweep, going house-to-house across the capital Monday in a "clearing operation". The new travel ban was announced late Sunday by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, who packaged the restrictions as being aimed at…

A Taliban government spokesman says the group's forces have arrested dozens of criminals, kidnappers and smugglers in operations across Kabul

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

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…

As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major Waheeda Bayat will not be among them.

“The lights are off, shelves are in disarray and dust has coated every single book,” says Zabihullah Ehsas, my longtime friend and mentor, describing the current state of Khushal Baba Ketabtun, a library we established together in 2012. Our efforts represented an attempt to address the shortage of Pashto books…

Ahmad, a 30-year-old Afghan who worked for the German military, is now in hiding in Kabul in fear of his life.