More than 100 people have been arrested for growing poppy in northeastern Afghanistan, police said Sunday, in an area that has previously resisted a Taliban government ban on the crop. The Taliban ...

Wednesday marked five years since Japanese doctor, Nakamura Tetsu, was gunned down in Afghanistan. People gathered to pay tribute to his memory and to express resolve to keeping his work alive.

It became more and more urgent to me to help raise voices of the women of Afghanistan, bring them to the larger global platform. What do you hope will be the impact of this film? When people watch ...

New Delhi: Afghanistan’s province ... appearance is quite different from their Pashtun and other neighbours. To this day, the origin of the Kalash people remains unknown. The traditional Kalash ...

"Unfortunately, we could not do anything." "This is bad news for all Afghan people," she said angrily. "Because men cannot become midwives in Afghanistan." Even before this week's news, medical ...

In 2024, Afghanistan experienced severe flooding that devastated vital agricultural land in the northern provinces, and hundreds of people were killed. Before this, the country was ravaged by ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed the promotion of Army Lieutenant General Christopher Donahue, who had been a commander in Afghanistan during the U.S. withdrawal ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Six Pakistani soldiers and 22 militants were killed in armed clashes in a northwestern region near the Afghan border ... reaching billions of people worldwide every ...

the Presidency would now go to a Ghilzai Pashtun or a Tajik, which represented a shift in Afghan’s troubled sectarian history where Islam had failed to unify the various ethnicities and sects ...