A number of retirees in Kabul have once again gathered in front of the Pension Fund Directorate to demand their unpaid ...

Officials at Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) urged National Unity Government (NUG) to provide citizens with clean drinking water. Abdul Ahmad Farzan, head of the provincial ...

Note: This is an updated version. A suicide attacker struck the heavily guarded diplomatic quarter in Kabul with a massive truck bomb during rush hour on Wednesday morning, killing 90 people, and ...

Sixteen years ago, the criminal US army, with the partnership of the English colonizers, invaded our country under the pretext of war on terror and dismantling the ...

The fall of the Afghan puppet government of Ashraf Ghani was inevitable. US military and government officials knew for years the extent of the corruption inside the Afghan government, military, and ...

On July 3, 2024, The Guardian reported a shocking case of Taliban s sexual assault on a female prisoner. Taliban insurgents filmed a gang rape of a female prisoner and sent it to her later, ...

But seventeen years and almost $2 trillion later, the country is still in turmoil as the Taliban maintains its grip on almost 60 percent of the country, the most territory it has controlled since 2001 ...

It was a sunny morning in early December last year when 23-year-old Khadija set herself on fire. She kissed her three-month old son Mohammed goodbye and said a short prayer. “Please God, stop this ...

Daily 8am: This article was written by Behnia for Hasht-e Subh Daily and published on March 27, 2025. An edited version of the article is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement ...

Under the Taliban, the country has also been plunged into an even more catastrophic socioeconomic crisis. Some 64% of the ...

Afghan Women’s Mission has been in touch with RAWA to address their needs at this urgent time. In this brief Q&A with AWM Co-Director Sonali Kolhatkar, RAWA explains the unfolding situation on the ...

A young woman has died after setting herself on fire in Taywara district of Ghor province in an alleged attempt to escape a ...