Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased nearly fivefold in 2026 compared with the previous year, despite the Taliban ...

The Taliban have announced that 252 Afghan migrants have been released from prisons in Pakistan and returned to Afghanistan.

Nasir Ahmad Faiq, Chargé d’Affaires of Afghanistan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, says the Taliban’s continued ...

Five years after the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, Taliban officials are seeking renewed diplomatic and economic ...

Canada's representative to the United Nations said any normalisation of relations with the Taliban must be conditional on ...

Pakistani officials and the Afghan Taliban blamed each other this week for what they described as “unprovoked” attacks at a ...

Pakistan's Information Ministry on Wednesday, 28 October, rejected the Taliban Defence Ministry's account of clashes in ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports a sharp rise in poppy cultivation and opium production in Afghanistan ...

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar , Sayed Hassib and Ahmad Masih Noori BABA YUSUF, Afghanistan, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Carpets still hang ...

When Basir Arian was summoned to the Taliban headquarters, he knew he had to go. To defy them meant death. The torture left him devastated and sure he had to leave the country ...

Opium production in Afghanistan has risen fivefold in a year. According to a UN survey released on Thursday, it’s the first significant increase since the Taliban banned poppy cultivation in 2022.

Doctors say hundreds of Afghans could be denied sight-saving treatment after the Taliban ordered hospitals to stop the ...