The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Afghanistan is inching closer towards economic collapse six months after the Taliban seized power, the Red Cross said on Friday, with a paralysed banking system stymieing international efforts to get financial aid into the war-ravaged country.

UNICEF's top chief says the Taliban have committed to allowing Afghan girls to go to school next month

The 42-year-old lost both legs above the knee while serving in Afghanistan.

Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion in the early hours of Thursday, thought to be Moscow’s most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979

Republicans are placing blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on a certain commander in chief – but not the one who gave the order to attack, Andrew Feinberg writes

Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine's government pleaded for help as it said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a “full-scale war." President Vladimir Putin ignored…

“The lights are off, shelves are in disarray and dust has coated every single book,” says Zabihullah Ehsas, my longtime friend and mentor, describing the current state of Khushal Baba Ketabtun, a library we established together in 2012. Our efforts represented an attempt to address the shortage of Pashto books…

Serving officer in Australian Defence Force tells defamation trial Roberts-Smith showed photos of dead insurgents on his iPod

After escaping the Taliban last year, Afghanistan's senior women footballers are back on the training pitch, ready to return to the world game.