Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed five people including Taliban security forces on Tuesday in an explosion outside a bank in northern Afghanistan, police said. Seven people were also wounded in the…

Afghanistan’s Taliban government took over management of Kabul’s famous Serena hotel on Saturday, a hotel statement said, a luxury property targeted by Taliban attacks during their insurgency. The Kabul Serena…

Afghanistan’s exiled women cricketers will be the first beneficiaries of a new refugee fund started by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the club said on Friday. Hundreds of athletes fled…

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday that Afghanistan’s governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Since the Taliban’s return to power in…

The Taliban’s supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by Afghan women and saying that existing ones should be…

Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Thursday confirmed that Pakistan had carried out an intelligence-based operation in Afghanistan based on “threats to Pakistani citizens’ security”. The FO spokesperson’s statement — the first…

Sixteen Pakistan Army soldiers were killed while thwarting terrorists’ bid to attack a security check post in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military’s media wing…

The White House has stated that the leadership of the Taliban in Afghanistan is a target of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP). In a statement issued by the White House,…

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan are reported to have banned medical schools from admitting female students, removing the last remaining opportunity for women to pursue higher education. The decree issued by…

The United Nations mission to Afghanistan said on Tuesday the ruling Taliban had arbitrarily detained journalists 256 times since their takeover three years ago and urged authorities there to protect…