The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian, Cultural and Social Affairs and Special Envoy of the OIC Secretary-General to Afghanistan Tarig Ali Bakhiet has met with Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Antonio Vitorino, at the IOM’s headquarters in Geneva, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. Thursday's meeting highlighted…

Rabia Johini had never stepped foot in a pool until last month, when she decided to join a program that offers free swimming lessons to newly-arrived Afghan women in Sydney's west.

Jonathan Trott has replaced Graham Thorpe as Afghanistan's new head coach after Thorpe fell "seriously ill" in May and was hospitalised

Dubai (AFP) - Former England middle-order batsman Jonathan Trott was on Friday named as the new coach of Afghanistan, replacing Graham Thorpe who had to withdraw from the position on health grounds.

Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincing

Duzdanchisma (Afghanistan) (AFP) - When fighting erupted between Taliban forces and a breakaway group led by one of their former commanders in northern Afghanistan last month, Zahra and her family fled to the mountains. 

Former soldier’s barrister says newspapers accusing him of murders while part of SAS ‘failed to establish any motive’ and the case is ‘an embarrassment’

Veteran reporter Lynne O’Donnell, who has worked in Afghanistan for years, says she was ‘abused and threatened’ by the Taliban.

Australian journalist Lynne O’Donnell describes three days of "cat-and-mouse" with the Taliban that eventually saw her detained for four hours.