The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

There is no evidence schoolgirls in Iran have been the target of chemical attacks, but neither are they ‘making it up’ – it's a collective stress response based on a belief, argues Dr Robert Bartholomew

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has brought her planned crackdown on people smugglers to a southern town near the coast where a wooden boat crowded with migrants broke apart

Two suicide bombers caused horrific slaughter as huge crowds swamped Kabul airport during US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Rallies, conferences and events marking International Women's Day take place across the globe, focusing on abortion, equal pay and an end to gender repressive laws in countries including Afghanistan and Iran.

Witnesses described the chaos and panic of the 2021 US departure during the Republican inquiry, which had people in tears at times

The Marine sergeant, who survived a terrorist bombing on the Abbey gate at the Kabul airport in 2021, recounted chaos and atrocities he witnessed. Veterans urged Congress to help those left behind.

The U.N. envoy in Afghanistan warned on Wednesday that a Taliban administration crackdown on women's rights is likely to lead to a drop in aid and development funding in the country, where women fear being cut from public life as much as violent death.

Active-service members and veterans have provided first-hand testimony in the House of Representatives about the implications of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing in harrowing and explicit detail the trauma experienced on the ground

Since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of Afghan families have found refuge in neighbouring Pakistan. Many Afghans decided to flee their country in order for their daughters to have an education, the Taliban having imposed a ban on secondary and higher education for girls. Pakistan…