In Afghanistan, the ruling militant Islamist Taliban are increasingly trying to ban women from public life. Taliban leaders institutionalized “massive and systematic” discrimination and violence against women and children,…
Taliban militants physically assaulted at least two Afghan journalists covering a protest by women’s rights activists. Earlier, several journalists were also detained or intimidated. “Strikes of dozens of cables…
UNICEF wants urgent help for all Afghan children who were evacuated without families to another country in the days after the Taliban took Kabul. According to the United Nations…
The attack near Kabul airport should not block the evacuations of people from Afghanistan, says NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. He called the massacre “a horrific terrorist attack” but has…
After occupying Ghazni province last month, Taliban fighters tortured and killed nine men of the Hazara people, an ethnic group mainly living in the central mountain region of Afghanistan. Amnesty…
The US is on a collision course with the Taliban over President Biden’s statement that the Americans will remain in Afghanistan until all their citizens are evacuated. The question is…
In Afghanistan, there are fears that government agencies and aid organizations will not secure databases in time. In this way, people become vulnerable to attacks by the Taliban. Thousands…
The United States has stopped evacuation flights from Kabul airport because it is too busy at the airport. The soldiers present will first clear the runway. It is unknown how…
In Afghanistan, Taliban rebels have now also captured the border town of Wesh in Spin Boldak district. That is one of the main border crossings with Pakistan. In recent weeks,…
According to the Taliban, Afghans who have worked for foreign armies do not have to fear for their safety. They must show sufficient “repentance”, the Muslim extremists say in a…