The Latest Breaking News from 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…

With breakdancers, artists and parkourists facing a bleak future under the Taliban, a global network stepped in to help, drawing on the activist spirit of rap culture

Six months on from the fall of Kabul, a collection of essays unpicks the catastrophic mess the west has left behind in Afghanistan, while the story of one young man’s perilous escape cannot fail to move

Ziaullah Zia arrived in Australia from Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul. Baqir Alidad arrived by boat a decade ago. While the pair share a similar past, Australia has offered one man security, while the other is left in "limbo".

Fifteen judges – at risk of Taliban and criminal retribution after the fall of Kabul – were forced to flee their homeland

On February 12, the Taliban released four Afghan women’s rights activists, who were arrested nearly a month earlier. Dozens more are being held in Taliban custody, according to other activists and US diplomats. The released women have not yet been able to share what happened to them in Taliban custody…

Rights groups are calling on Congress to pass law to grant Afghan refugees path to permanent residency in US.

A 76-year-old Afghan man accused of being the commander of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul in the 1980s, where he allegedly abused political opponents, on Wednesday told The Hague court it was a case of mistaken identity.