Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Taliban tortured Afghans expelled from Pakistan and Iran, UN says

Afghan authorities have urged nationals to return, pledging amnesty for anyone who left after the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

24/07/2025

Afghanistan

Taliban deny British couple held in Afghan prison are being mistreated

UN rights experts have demanded the release of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, warning that the couple are at risk of irreparable harm or even death.

23/07/2025

Afghanistan

UN concerned by Taliban's arrest of women for dress code violations

The Taliban, which returned to power in 2021, has cracked down on the way women dress and behave in public, notably through so-called morality laws forbidding them from showing their faces outside the home.

21/07/2025

Afghanistan

Terror to tourism? Hostage-style video invites visitors to Afghanistan

Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to travel to Afghanistan.

16/07/2025

Afghanistan

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban over women's rights violations

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s supreme court, who have limited girls' education and banned women's voices from being heard in public.

08/07/2025

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Tens of thousands of Afghans return from Pakistan after deadline

More than 80,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan between 1 and 18 April, following the expiry of a voluntary return deadline, Pakistani officials have said.

30/04/2025

Europe News

Russia’s top court removes Taliban’s terrorist designation

Russian officials have recently emphasised the need to engage with the Taliban to "help stabilise" Afghanistan.

17/04/2025

Afghanistan

British couple detained in Afghanistan to face Taliban court verdict

The Reynolds family say that their parents have faced harsh conditions and arbitrary detention for unspecified reasons.

11/04/2025

Afghanistan

Taliban leader declares Western laws unnecessary in Afghanistan

Speaking during a sermon for Eid al-Fitr, Hibatullah Akhundzada said that the Taliban "will create our own laws" and dismissed Western legal frameworks.

31/03/2025

Afghanistan

British couple arrested by Taliban to be freed 'as soon as possible'

Peter and Barbie Reynolds, who run education and training programmes in central Afghanistan, were detained by the Taliban earlier this month.

25/02/2025

Afghanistan

Iranian foreign minister meets Taliban in first visit in eight years

Abbas Aragchi spoke with Taliban leaders about border tensions, Afghan refugees in Iran and the Helmand River water treaty.

27/01/2025

Afghanistan

Afghans who fled Taliban urge Trump to lift refugee scheme suspension

Afghans who fled Taliban rule are pleading with US President Donald Trump to reverse refugee programme suspension, saying it puts them in danger.

22/01/2025

Afghanistan

Taliban-US prisoner swap: Two Americans exchanged for Afghan national

The Taliban described the exchange as a step toward normalising ties with the US, but broader recognition of the regime in Kabul remains unlikely.

21/01/2025

Afghanistan

NRC says aid cuts biggest threat to women in Afghanistan

The Taliban takeover in August 2021 drove millions into poverty and hunger after foreign aid was cut off almost overnight.

20/01/2025

Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Taliban government to shut down NGOs employing women

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign non-governmental groups in Afghanistan employing women.

30/12/2024

Afghanistan

Pakistani strikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban say

Pakistani airstrikes killed 46 people in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban claim

25/12/2024

Health news

EU condemns reported Taliban ban on women's medical education

Female trainee midwives and nurses have reportedly been ordered not to attend classes by the Taliban, who have restricted Afghan women's rights.

04/12/2024

Afghanistan

UN denounces Taliban's ban on women's voices being heard in public

The Taliban’s ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top UN official said Sunday.

25/08/2024

Afghanistan

Heavy seasonal rain triggers flooding in Afghanistan, at least 68 dead

At least 50 people have been reported dead in the hard-hit western province of Ghor, according to local authorities after unusually heavy seasonal rain.

18/05/2024

Afghanistan

Floods kill more than 300 people in northern Afghanistan, UN says

Flash floods from unusually heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 1,000 houses, the U.N. food agency said Saturday.

11/05/2024

Travel News

The Taliban is working to attract tourists to Afghanistan

Tour companies are grappling with the country's treatment of women.

30/04/2024

Afghanistan

Euroviews. How many more years will Afghan girls lose to Taliban oppression?

Afghanistan has dropped off the news agenda, but the violence and oppression continue — and for too many of us Afghan women, no matter how loud we shout, it feels like the world has stopped listening, Meetra Qutb writes.

12/04/2024

Afghanistan

Euroviews. This Ramadan, Muslim world can end gender apartheid in Afghanistan

The Taliban's authority hinges on their purported adherence to Islamic law. However, that is based on a fundamentally flawed, selective and extreme interpretation of Islamic texts, meaning their policies are against their own stated principles, Dr Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al Issa writes.

03/04/2024

Afghanistan

More than 1 million girls barred from Afghanistan's new school year

Having stormed back to power in 2021, Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime has restored many of the draconian policies it enforced in the 1990s.

20/03/2024

Afghanistan

Two dead and four survivors following a plane crash in Afghanistan

The Taliban announced on Monday that two people died and four others were rescued following the crash of a private Russian jet carrying six over the weekend in Afghanistan.

22/01/2024

Culture news

Euroviews. Afghanistan’s art and artists are on the brink of obliteration

We urge both UNHCR and individual governments that have ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention to acknowledge the inherent vulnerability of Afghan artists and cultural workers at risk under Taliban rule, and as such, accord them prima facie refugee recognition, Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston write.

01/12/2023