Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – all in one place.
Afghanistan and Iran discuss legal pathways for Afghan workers through work permits
Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – all in one place.
Iran’s mass deportation threatens Afghan refugees fleeing Taliban
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
Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – all in one place.
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.