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

Zahra Haqparast, a dentist and women’s rights activist who was imprisoned by the Taliban in 2022 and now speaks from exile in ...

Suicide rates have increased in Afghanistan in recent years, as the nation grapples with crippling poverty, a lack jobs and ...

The Taliban are exporting Afghan workers to fill jobs in the Gulf nation of Qatar to ease unemployment in Afghanistan, and say talks are underway to send labor to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab ...

WHO confirmed 9 new cases of polio in the two countries, raising alarm over cross-border transmission due to refugee ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdul Bari Omar says eighty percent of Afghanistan’s electricity is imported from neighboring countries and currently ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) distributed nearly 2.5 million electronic ID cards ...

At the border with Iran, Fatima Rezaei distributes food and hygiene products to Afghans forced to return, unable to passively ...

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

Iran's Foreign Ministry has clarified that there are currently no official plans for President Masoud Pezeshkian to visit Afghanistan, describing his recent remarks about a possible trip to Kabul as a ...

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 ...

Pakistani gunship helicopters have hit militant hideouts near the country's border with Afghanistan in the northwestern ...