United Arab Emirates authorities have arbitrarily detained up to 2,700 Afghans for over 15 months in the “Emirates Humanitarian City,” a humanitarian logistics hub in Abu Dhabi, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its report Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch accuses UAE of detaining Afghan evacuees for over a year, govt responds 

Pakistan has overtaken Afghanistan as the country with most terror attacks in South Asia, according to the annual Global Terrorism Index report. The report has been released by Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace.

Pakistan overtakes Afghanistan as country with most terror attacks: Report

The Taliban health ministry announced on Monday (March 13) that the annual polio inoculation campaign will be launched in Afghanistan. The news agencies reported that the vaccination programme aims at reaching at least nine million children.

Afghanistan: Taliban health ministry launches annual polio vaccination drive

Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, urged Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to lift its restrictions on women and girls in the nation. Bhutto Zardari said that the IEA's treatment of women and girls is not typical in the Muslim world.

Pakistan foreign minister calls on Taliban to lift bans on Afghan women, girls

The Islamic State group (IS) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed a security guard and wounded a group of journalists and children in Mazar-e-Sharif, a city in northern Afghanistan.

IS claims responsibility for bomb attack on Afghan journalists

In Taliban 2.0's Afghanistan, women who had escaped the clutches of their abusive partners through divorce are being forced to return to their ex-husbands. Before the Taliban took over in 2021, women in the country were slowly and steadily gaining some semblance of rights; one of them was to divorce their abusive husbands.

Taliban cancel all divorces, force women to go back into the clutches of abusive ex-husbands

Afghanistan continues to be in a state of turmoil. A bomb exploded at an awards ceremony for journalists killing at least about one person and five others were wounded.

Afghanistan: Bomb explosion at an award ceremony for journalists, 1 dead and 5 wounded

A Taliban governor has been killed in a suicide attack in the Afghan province of Balkh. The governor, Mohammad Dawod Muzammil, was in his office during the blast. Who is targeting the Taliban and why? Molly Gambhir tells you.

Gravitas | Afghanistan: Extreme forces rise to take on the Taliban. Here's all you need to know

At least one person was killed and five injured after a bomb exploded during an award ceremony for journalists in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif city on Saturday. The explosion took place at the Tabian Farhang centre in the capital of Balkh province, where journalists had gathered for an award function at 11 am, Mohammad Asif Waziri, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for Balkh police, said, according to AP news agency.

One killed, five injured after bomb explodes during award ceremony in Afghanistan

The Taliban governor of Balkh province in Afghanistan was killed in a suicide attack on Thursday (March 9). Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the killed Talibani, was known for fighting against Islamic State jihadists.

Afghanistan: Taliban governor of Balkh province dies in suicide attack

The governor of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Balkh province was killed in a blast at his office on Thursday (March 9) morning. Governor Mohammad Dawood Muzammil and one other person were killed in a suicide attack.

Afghanistan: Taliban governor of Balkh province killed in suicide attack; IS claims responsibility

US Army veterans as well as active-service members on Wednesday gave a powerful and emotional testimony before Congress, dubbing the haphazard retreat of the forces by the US government a 'catastrophe'.

Sobbing US soldiers recount the 'horrors' of catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan before Congress

Military members and veterans of the Afghanistan war offered harrowing eyewitness testimony of the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal from the country's longest conflict, during an hours-long congressional hearing.

Veterans give searing testimony on 'catastrophic' US withdrawal from Afghanistan

International Women's Day meant little to Zareena (name changed) on March 8th this year. But speaking from Kabul, she still wished WION well on Women’s Day, hoping that her voice will make a difference to the current state of women in Afghanistan living under Taliban's rule.

Exclusive | 'We can't serve our family, nation': Why Women's Day held little significance in Afghanistan

An all-female panel was featured in a show of Afghan broadcaster Tolo News aired on Wednesday from its studio along with a female audience to mark International Women's Day.

Afghanistan TV's rare broadcast features all-female panel to discuss rights on Women's Day

In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby son she lost last year after a harrowing birth with no medical care. Watch the video to know more.

Young Afghan women train to become midwives

Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.

Afghan colleges reopen, only men allowed!

India is all set to deliver humanitarian assistance consisting of wheat to "Afghan people" via the Chabahar port in Iran. The India built port has been in the past used to send assistance to Afghanistan, but this is for the first time since Taliban takeover of Afghanistan that the Chabahar will be used to send assistance the landlocked country.

In a first since Taliban takeover, India to deliver aid to Afghanistan via Chabahar port

Slamming the Taliban for imposing conservative rules over women's rights and freedom in Afghanistan, Razia Muradi, an ambitious Afghan woman, proved that women can excel in any field if given a chance.

Afghan student gives befitting reply to Taliban after winning MA gold at Gujarat university

Universities opened across Afghanistan on Monday but a peculiar sight showed the dystopia of our times. Only the male students could be seen walking down the halls as women students remained barred from entering the premises to pursue education.

Universities reopen in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan but without female students

The UK government has been facing increasing pressure over the delay in the release of the next phase of the Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme (ACRS ) for hundreds of Afghanistan journalists who supported the West’s mission in the Islamic country.

UK govt faces ire of rights groups over delay in relocation of stranded Afghan journalists

Taliban welcomed the Indian announcement for Afghanistan in the Union Budget 2023-24, which was presented on Wednesday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. New Delhi announced a development assistance of Rs 200 crore ($24.

Taliban welcome India’s funds announcement for Afghanistan in Budget 2023-24

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have "beaten and detained" a professor who protested against the ban on women's education, he said on Friday (February 3). Ismail Mashal tore up his degrees on live television in protest against the globally criticised ban.

Afghanistan: Taliban detain professor who tore up his degrees to protest ban on women's education

Putting a bleak picture of Afghanistan, European Union's special envoy Tomas Niklasson has said that the "situation will only get worse" in the country even as he called on the "Taliban to think carefully about the consequences their decision is having on the people of Afghanistan".

In Delhi, EU special envoy says, the Afghanistan situation will only 'get worse'

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