Helmand districts still paying high price for the US-led war as lack of reconstruction bites
Residents in one of the most remote and deprived districts of Helmand during the 20 years of the US-led war...
Kabul women protesters released
Three women who were detained Sunday morning in Kabul during a protest for women's rights have been released from prison,...
Three women protesting in Kabul arrested by the Taliban
A group of women marching in Kabul on Sunday morning were violently dispersed by Taliban forces and some have been...
The Taliban’s public displays of brutality and dead people is deliberate – and psychologically destructive
The Al-Mahdi township in the west of Herat city was silent. Some panicked. Taliban forces had hung the bloodied bodies...
Balkh women determined to protest until schools and universities reopen to them
Women in northern Balkh province, the majority of whom are students who have been refused the right to attend classes,...
Nangarhari mother killed and children wounded in shooting attack
A man has allegedly shot dead his wife and injured his three children in an attack in Nangarhar province, according...
Firsthand account of the extreme violence plaguing women prisons in Balkh
A pregnant woman, who had protested in Balkh province for women’s rights, suffered such a beating from Taliban guards that...
“You betrayed us more than a soldier”: Being a journalist in Afghanistan and the state of the media on National Journalist Day
Not only is war fought with weapons, it’s also a battle of information. Such was the sentiment behind one Taliban...
Khosti man kills his two children, wounds two others, before killing himself
A man has shot dead two of his own children and wounded two other family members before later turning the...
Badghis woman killed by armed men
A 50-year-old woman has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the capital of Badghis province Qala-e-Naw, the local Taliban...
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