Afghanistan

Afghan girls look at Taliban supporters on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khar
World+Biz

Afghan Taliban celebrate return to power two years on amid erosion of women's rights

FILE PHOTO: Afghan female students walk near Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
Middle East

UN envoy urges world court to prosecute Afghan gender discrimination

Photo: Karim Sahib AFP via Getty Image/DW
South Asia

Taliban mark two years since return to power in Afghanistan

A displaced Afghan woman holds her child as she waits with other women to receive aid supply outside an UNCHR distribution center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
South Asia

12 killed, 40 missing in Afghanistan flash flood

A demonstrator burns the Quran outside Stockholm's central mosque in Stockholm, Sweden June 28, 2023. Photo: REUTERS
World+Biz

Taliban halt Swedish activities in Afghanistan after Quran burning

A woman wearing a niqab enters a beauty salon where the ads of women have been defaced by a shopkeeper in Kabul, Afghanistan October 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo
South Asia

Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site where an explosive-laden vehicle detonated amidst an attack on a Sikh Temple in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 18, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
South Asia

Over 1,000 Afghan civilians killed in blasts, violence since August 2021: UN

FILE PHOTO: A UNICEF logo is pictured outside their offices in Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2017. Picture taken January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
World+Biz

UNICEF concern over report of aid group ban from Afghan education

The brother of Ezmarai Ahmadi, a civilian wrongly identified as an Islamic State militant and killed in a U.S. drone strike, stands next to the wreckage of a vehicle that was damaged in the strike in the Kwaja Burga neighborhood of Kabul on Sept. 18. HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
South Asia

Blast in northern Afghanistan kills 11 during funeral of deputy governor

Road crash kills 9, injures 31 in S Afghanistan
South Asia

Road crash kills 9, injures 31 in S Afghanistan

Photo: Karim Sahib AFP via Getty Image/DW
South Asia

Deputy governor of northern Afghan province killed in car bomb attack

Map of Afghanistan. Photo: Collected
South Asia

Almost 80 schoolgirls poisoned, hospitalised in northern Afghanistan

A currency broker stands near his booth, which is decorated with pictures of currency notes, while dealing with customers, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan on 27 January 2023. File Photo: Reuters/Akhtar Soomro
Global Economy

Pakistan outlines process for barter trade with Afghanistan, Iran, Russia