KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 24 (Xinhua) — Three people, including a firefighter, were injured as a petrol depot caught fire in Kandahar city of southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Sunday …
Afghanistan: Women tortured, raped in Taliban prisons
While no one knows exactly how many women are imprisoned in Afghanistan, an alarming number of reports indicates they are abused and sexually assaulted by the Taliban.
Russia’s LPG exports to Afghanistan boom as Europe shuns it
Russia’s exports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Afghanistan and ex-Soviet states in Central Asia have jumped following introduction of European Union sanctions against Moscow at the end of 2024, …
Funding shortages may halt global child malnutrition programs, World Food Programme warns
GENEVA – Programmes to help prevent malnourishment in children in Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria could be suspended within months if urgent funding is not found, the U.N.’s World Food Programme warned …
Taliban Reject Trump’s Call to Surrender Captured U.S. Arms
On 1 March 2025, after his first Cabinet meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump said the Taliban should return the equipment the U.S. abandoned in Afghanistan as it withdrew in August 2021. He added …
Bangladesh in BIG Trouble as Arakan Army escalates activities at borders, US General heads to Dhaka, Yunus govt to hold… India plans to…
Vowell is a senior US military officer and the Deputy Commanding General of the US Army Pacific (USARPAC). He has participated in three wars in Afghanistan and two in Iraq.
The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, says Kabul
The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former …
US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani
The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed …
K-9 veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan reunited with handler after 3 years apart
Army Staff Sgt. Kristin Vanderzanden and her first assigned K-9 Frenky were reunited after three years apart by the American Humane Society in San Antonio.
UNICEF calls on the Taliban to lift ban on girls’ education as new school year begins in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency on Saturday urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls’ education to save the future of millions who have been deprived of their right to education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.