Hengaw and other human rights groups say executions of Afghan citizens in Iran have sharply increased in recent years. In the first six months of 2025 alone, at least 40 Afghan nationals were executed ...

The country’s Taliban government banned girls from secondary school and university three years ago — the only country in the ...

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban’s top environment official on Monday called for Afghanistan’s inclusion in U.N. climate talks, saying ...

After eight years of talk, regional governments are taking concrete steps toward building a trans-Afghan railroad from doubly landlocked Uzbekistan to Pakistani ports after all three countries signed ...

Fears have been raised over the fate of elite Afghan commandos, who military sources believe will be among the Taliban's top ...

Noor Mohammad Saqib, the Taliban’s Minister for Religious Affairs, referencing what he called a “special decree” from ...

Since July 16, the Taliban have arrested dozens of women and girls in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, for allegedly violating ...

The city of Kabul in Afghanistan is at risk of becoming the first modern capital to run out of water, according to a recent ...

The Trump administration has canceled legal protections for many Afghans in the U.S. There’s little California has been able ...

Afghans who worked for the previous Nato-backed administration face beatings, torture and mock executions in prison, while women and girls are being persecuted based on their gender alone, according t ...

From underground hair salons to selling makeup and jewelry online, a report by The Washington Post details the daily struggles that women in Afghanistan face. Afghan women fight the Taliban with small ...