The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

We are still trying to find ways to get visas – writing letters, appealing to governments – but the options are running out, says Ruchi Kumar

Iran and Türkiye are preventing entry of Afghan refugees or forcibly returning them to face life-threatening risks under the Taliban regime, in violation of international law, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands fled Afghanistan in August 2021 after the US left the country in a chaotic…

KABUL, Afghanistan — Standing on the side of a mud-crusted street by a sewage canal, Shafiullah heaved a 110-pound bag of flour into the trunk of his battered Toyota Corolla and sighed. Beside him, a shambolic queue of residents of this once-affluent neighborhood, all waiting for their monthly U.N.-supplied assistance…

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine

India warned that linkages between proscribed outfits such as Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and provocative statements by other terror groups pose a direct threat to the region’s peace and stability

DUBAI: International cricket is at a crossroads. While the International Cricket Council (ICC) is planning an aggressive drive to globalise the sport with an attempt to jump on to the Olympic bandwagon, T20 leagues are mushrooming across major cricket-playing nations.

Countries should restart some development aid for impoverished Afghanistan that was halted a year ago when the Taliban seized power, the U.N. aid chief said on Monday, as the United States told Russia and China to "put your money where your mouth is."

President Joe Biden has called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who have fled from the country on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

An Afghan Sikh family of 13 has found refuge in the diaspora community on Long Island