RIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned on Thursday the terrorist attacks in Kunduz province in northeastern Afghanistan and a ministry building in the Afghan capital.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Saudi Arabia's condemnation and (...)
Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old daughter scream from the balcony.
The girl had seen police approach her father in the street outside their safe house in (...)
"It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.
He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. (...)
A senior Taliban figure has called on the group's leader to scrap education bans on women and girls in the country.
In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai said there are no excuses for the bans, according to the (...)
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country's women, the chief of a top aid agency has warned.
Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of (...)
India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical reality in the region.
This comes more than three years after India suffered a major strategic and diplomatic blow when (...)
The Afghan Taliban said bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women.
Six people were also injured in the bombing at four locations in (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's embassy in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, announced on Sunday the resumption of its diplomatic activities after a hiatus of three years. "Based on the desire of the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide all (...)
The Taliban's refugee minister was killed in a suicide bombing carried out by ISIS in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, according to officials.
Khalil Haqqani is the uncle of current Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who leads the (...)
Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have told the BBC they were ordered not to return to classes in the morning — effectively closing off their last route to further education in the country.
Five separate institutions across (...)
A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls. Nila Ibrahimi won the International Children's Peace Prize on Tuesday, an award that has (...)
The Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the environment agency said on Sunday.
The conference, known as COP29, begins on Monday in Azerbaijan and is one of the most important (...)
The prime minister has told British nationals in Lebanon "now is the time to leave" after fighting intensified between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group that dominates the country.
Sir Keir Starmer said "we are ramping up the (...)
Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, marking the highest-level visit by a foreign official since the Taliban returned to power three years ago.
Aripov, leading a delegation, was welcomed at Kabul airport by Abdul (...)
Flooding from heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan has left about 40 people dead and 347 injured, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
The storms have destroyed many homes, the health ministry added, leaving about 1,500 children displaced, according (...)
The public inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan has obtained a previously deleted cache of data that could hold crucial evidence, the BBC can reveal.
The files were permanently erased from a server by a UK Special Forces contractor in (...)
Three bewildered children sit on the roof of a mosque in Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, their eyes blinking away mud that covers their entire bodies.
Beside them, a rescuer lowers their baby brother, 2-year-old Arian, to the rooftop, a (...)
At least 300 people have now been confirmed killed as torrential rain and devastating floods battered north and northwestern Afghanistan, UN Food Program said on Saturday.
"Flash floods ravage #Afghanistan, killing more than 300 people in Baghlan (...)
New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in (...)
Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people.
Three were marched bent double into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a wheelchair. All were charged with committing an act of terrorism.
The (...)
At least 21 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a doctor at the regional hospital has told the BBC.
The Taliban government has put the death toll at three. Police said a number of others were (...)
Dozens of archeological sites in Afghanistan have been bulldozed to allow systematic looting, according to researchers at the University of Chicago.
They say their analysis of satellite photos provides the first definitive photographic evidence that (...)
On an autumn day in 1576, a Mughal princess led a cohort of royal women on an unprecedented voyage to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah.
It was the first time in Mughal India that a woman had gone on the sacred pilgrimage called the Hajj that is (...)
A stone's throw from the US border and around the corner from Tijuana's seedy red-light district, Afghan families say they feel safe inside a first of its kind Muslim-only shelter.
But they are afraid to wander far outside, traumatised by their (...)
About 200 members of Afghan special forces, trained and funded by the UK, face imminent deportation to their Taliban-controlled homeland, the BBC has learned.
The figures — gathered by a network of Afghan veterans — reveal the scale of what one (...)
