By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch called for the release of two UN staffers and six NGO ...

GENEVA: Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data ...

The UN report warns of AQIS's shift to smaller, harder-to-detect cells and its potential spread into Bangladesh, signalling a growing threat to South Asian security.

(New York, August 12, 2026) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) for ...

Forced to leave their smartphones off campus, Afghan university students are divided over whether the new anti-tech rule has disrupted their studies or done wonders for their concentration.The ...

The West’s Afghanistan strategy has failed. In 2021, America withdrew from the country, ending two decades of fighting and ...

GENEVA — Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan employees of the UN political mission in the country, the United Nations said yesterday (12 August). The Taliban's General Directorate of ...

Five years into their hard-line rule, the Taliban find themselves in crisis at home and abroad. Afghanistan has a track record of defeating superpowers. The mujahedeen humbled the Soviet Union in the ...

The United Nations says Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the ...

A UN report has linked the November 2025 Red Fort attack in Delhi to Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), warning that the group is evolving into a regional terrorist entity with decentralised ...

It is being published with her consent as part of a special coverage series that tells the stories of young women and girls from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August 2021. Since the ...