The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Afghans around the world are despairing at being unable to reach their loved ones at home after a Taliban-enforced internet blackout took effect on Monday.

Taliban authorities cut fibre-optic network in nationwide shutdown of communications to prevent ‘vice’

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has urged the Taliban government to immediately restore nationwide internet and telecommunications access, saying the blackout imposed by the government in Kabul has left the country almost entirely cut off from the outside world

Ban blocks mobile and broadband internet services, disrupts satellite television, and affects flight operations

Afghanistan faced a second day without internet and mobile phone service on Tuesday, after Taliban authorities cut the fibre optic network.

The three women live in exile where, despite an increase in deportations and rising hostility towards migrants, they use sport to empower women

Taliban authorities on Monday imposed a nationwide shutdown of communications, weeks after they began severing fibre optic connections to prevent "vice".

The release came just weeks after US President Donald Trump's executive order on 5 September which imposed new "consequences on those who wrongfully detain Americans abroad."

A British couple who were detained for almost eight months by the Taliban have not ruled out returning to Afghanistan.

Afghan asylum seekers accused of faking torture videos to enter UK, with claims some later returned to Afghanistan for holidays, sparking scrutiny.

Wounds such as burns or leg injuries are more common in Gaza than among US soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan