The Taliban appears to have significantly reduced opium cultivation in Afghanistan, where the militant group has banned illicit narcotics.
Afghanistan’s opium problem
The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have sent anti-narcotics units across the country to destroy this year’s opium poppy crop. BBC Afghan’s Dawood Azami explains how Afghanistan became the world’s …
The Taliban’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on opium poppy crops in Afghanistan
Cultivation in former poppy-growing heartland Helmand has been slashed from 120,000 hectares to less than 1,000 Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the …
Minibus crash kills 25 people, including nine children, in northern Afghanistan
An Afghan police spokesman says 25 people, including nine children, have died in a minibus accident in the country’s north
Has China trapped Afghanistan in its sinister debt trap diplomacy?
After leaving a number of smaller countries ‘high and dry’, China, the current villain in global politics, has now set its sights on Afghanistan, a war-torn South Asian country that has been facing …
Shining a light on the right to education in Afghanistan
Today, the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations will discuss the desperate situation of human rights in Afghanistan, at the International Labour Conference, in Geneva.
Lawmakers given access to “dissent channel” records on Afghanistan withdrawal
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to allow members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee access to view a classified diplomatic cable on Afghanistan sent through a dissent channel, ending a monthslong standoff between GOP lawmakers and the State Department over questions on the U.
Afghanistan car bombing causes death of local official and his driver
An Afghanistan deputy governor and his driver were killed in a car explosion Tuesday. Ten other people also sustained injuries from the blast.
Almost 80 schoolgirls poisoned and hospitalized in Afghanistan, official says
It is thought to be the first such assault since the Taliban swept to power and began their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls.
A Breakthrough in Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations?
A new joint committee on border movement aims to address the problem of cross-border attacks.