A fter the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in 2021, Nawida fled with her family to neighboring Iran. The lawyer had helped send members of the Islamist group to jail, and feared being arrested—or …
With no access to education beyond the 6th grade, girls in Afghanistan turn to religious schools
For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves.
Tajikistan election to yield docile parliament | Reuters
Tajikistan, a poor ex-Soviet nation north of Afghanistan, held a parliamentary election on Sunday certain to be won by President Imomali Rakhmon’s party despite growing popular discontent and …
Iranian president to visit Afghanistan to ‘open a new chapter’ in relations
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Isolation shields Afghanistan from financial crisis | Reuters
Devastated by nearly three decades of war, Afghanistan’s isolation from world trade and global finance might for once be to its advantage, shielding the country from the economic and financial …
The Trump administration claims no one has died due to US aid cuts. Our trip to Afghanistan suggests otherwise
The wail of a woman in a floral dress reverberates through the malnutrition ward and down the stuffy hallways of a hospital in eastern Afghanistan: The unfiltered pain of a mother watching her …
Russia working on Taliban ties, Putin says in Tajikistan – News4JAX
President Vladimir Putin says Russia is trying to build relations with the Taliban and that Russia wants to see all the ethnic groups in Afghanistan take part in running the country.
UN report finds Afghanistan violated human rights of involuntary returnees
The United Nations released a report on Thursday indicating that the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan committed human rights violations against Afghan refugees who returned to their home country.
Afghan women battle the Taliban’s Sharia laws with hair salons, underground businesses
From underground hair salons to selling makeup and jewelry online, a report by The Washington Post details the daily struggles that women in Afghanistan face. Afghan women fight the Taliban with small …
Pakistan, Afghanistan ink Preferential Trade Agreement: report
In a key development on the economic front, Pakistan and Afghanistan have inked a Preferential Trade Agreement …