Tired of war, Afghans have welcomed peace. Cities which used to ring to the blasts of suicide-bombers feel surprisingly calm. “This is the second summer that birds have returned to Kabul,” says a …
Limits on women’s education in Afghanistan will likely further weaken school quality, UNESCO says
PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Restrictions on women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan are expected to exacerbate a shortage of female teachers, further diluting education quality in a country where …
Afghanistan’s Unhappy Anniversary
Five years into their hard-line rule, the Taliban find themselves in crisis at home and abroad. Afghanistan has a track record of defeating superpowers. The mujahedeen humbled the Soviet Union in the …
Afghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Disappear 6 Rights Workers
(New York, August 12, 2026) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) for …
Cricket-Afghanistan to ‘host’ India for three-match T20I series in Delhi
Aug 12 (Reuters) – Afghanistan will be the “home” side when they meet India in three Twenty20 Internationals in September despite the series taking place at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium. Afghanistan …
Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle after more than a year
Afghan authorities on Tuesday released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with Afghanistan’s Taliban-run foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the …
A Young Marine’s Reckoning With the Afghanistan War
Re “Seeking Out Taliban Commander I Once Fought,” by Thomas Gibbons-Neff (essay, front page, July 27): Mr. Gibbons-Neff’s essay about his return to Afghanistan offers a moving account of a veteran’s …
Afghanistan’s child deaths are rising as food distributions face cuts, UN says
Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces, according to the U.N. World Food Program. The situation is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force …
Afghanistan: 5 Years Under Taliban Rule
August 15, 2026 will mark five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the Taliban’s increasingly draconian policies have made Afghanistan one of the …
Pakistan’s military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
Pakistan’s military on Friday rejected as “baseless” a recent U.N. report that said Pakistani cross-border military operations killed nearly 500 civilians and wounded over 1,000 in neighboring Afghanistan between October and June.