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April 28, 2026 11:27 AM

UNICEF warns Afghanistan could lose up to 25,000 female health workers, teachers

Afghanistan is at risk of losing more than 25,000 female teachers and health workers by 2030 if the Taliban-led country's restrictions on girls' education and women's employment are not lifted, according to a new UNICEF report released on Monday. The Taliban has banned women from most public sector jobs and limited girls to receiving an education only until the age of 12. These restrictions, according to the report, have already affected at least 1 million girls - a figure that is expected to ...

April 3, 2026 4:36 PM

Afghanistan: Residents slam Pakistan for attacking civilian houses in Khost

Local residents have accused Pakistani soldiers of targetting civilian houses in the Tani district of Afghanistan's Khost late Thursday as fighting continued on the country's border with Pakistan. According to sources, many local residents have started leaving their homes to escape the violence while casualties were also reported from the region, Afghanistan's leading news agency Khaama Press reported. However, no verified death or injury had been confirmed so far. Meanwhile, clashes were also...

March 13, 2026 3:54 PM

Afghanistan’s Taliban say Pakistani air strikes kill six, wound 12

Pakistan bombed the fuel depot of private airline Kam Air near Afghanistan's airport of Kandahar, the ruling Taliban said on Friday, stepping up the neighbours' worst conflict in years, despite China's efforts to mediate. The overnight strikes also hit residential areas in Kabul and the eastern province of Nangarhar, killing six people, including children, and wounding more than a dozen, the Taliban said. "When we woke up, dust was everywhere, the windows were broken, and we could hear nothi...

March 10, 2026 10:11 AM

US says UN aid to Afghanistan needs evaluation

Despite what it called a humanitarian "disaster" in Afghanistan, the U.S. said on Monday international assistance to the country should be evaluated, given Taliban "intransigence" and its exclusion of the female population from basic rights. Speaking to a U.N. Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, noted that the budget for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the mandate of which is up for renewal next week, is t...

February 27, 2026 10:48 PM

Women at risk as Taliban curbs hit Afghan healthcare, UN expert warns

Restrictions imposed by the Taliban are jeopardising the lives of women and their children who are sometimes denied emergency treatment, a U.N. human rights expert said on Friday. Regulations require sick or injured women to adhere to a dress code, be accompanied by a male guardian and be treated by male medics, Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Richard Bennett told a press briefing. Bennett said women were frequently denied ambulance services without a male guardian. In one instance describe...

February 26, 2026 11:04 PM

UN rights chief says Taliban decree expands executions, deepens repression

A new decree from Afghanistan's Taliban government is set to further crush rights and freedoms in the war-torn nation, especially for women, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday. The Taliban has restricted women's movements and barred girls from education beyond primary school since coming to power in 2021, via a series of morality laws that also limit expression and employment. Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said a decree signed by Taliban supreme l...

November 30, 2025 3:29 PM

US State Department stops processing visas for Afghan allies

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its diplomats worldwide to stop processing visas for Afghan nationals, according to a State Department cable seen by Reuters, effectively suspending the special immigration program for Afghans who helped the United States during its 20-year-long occupation of their home country. The cable, sent to all U.S. diplomatic posts on Friday, says that effective immediately, consular officers are instructed to reject any immigrant or non-immigra...

November 12, 2025 12:15 PM

Afghanistan economic recovery buckles as nine in 10 families go hungry or into debt, UNDP says

Afghanistan's economic recovery is buckling as nine in 10 households are forced to skip meals, sell belongings or take on debt to survive, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that mass returns are exacerbating the country's worst crisis since the Taliban returned to power. A United Nations Development Programme report said nearly one in 10 overseas Afghans has been forced back home, with more than 4.5 million returnees since 2023, mainly from Iran and Pakistan, swelling the population...

November 2, 2025 9:33 AM

‘T.T.P. is your problem; solve your own mess!’ Taliban snubs Pakistan

Peace-talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban remain deadlocked. What started as a glimmer of hope after deadly border-clashes has fizzled into finger-pointing and fresh threats. Both sides say that they will resume negotiations at Istanbul in Turkiye on 6th November. For now, they have agreed to extend the ceasefire. Pakistan warns that the ceasefire is neither open-ended nor unconditional. How did things come to such a pass? Let's rewind a little. In October, tensions exploded al...

October 12, 2025 1:08 PM

Pakistan closes border with Afghanistan following exchanges of fire

Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan on Sunday, Pakistani officials said, following exchanges of fire between the forces of the two countries. Afghan troops opened fire on Pakistani border posts late Saturday, with the country’s ministry of defence saying this was in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan earlier in the week. Pakistan said that it had responded with gun and artillery fire. Pakistani security officials said that a number of Afghan border posts were d...