The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

UNODC survey found 85% of families in northern provinces unable to replace poppy income. Production fell 32% to 296 tonnes as synthetic drugs surged.

Taliban authorities destroyed musical instruments in eastern Afghanistan, reinforcing a nationwide ban critics say is erasing culture.

The activist Zarmina Paryani speaks from exile in Germany about how Afghanistan has tried to silence the voices of women and girls since the 2021 takeover

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating

Pakistan sent back over 7,000 Afghan refugees in 48 hours in a frenetic crackdown in increasing military tensions, fuelling anxiety over the new migrant crisis.

Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies and American action flicks

Sima Samar has spent a lifetime working for the ideals of a country that no longer exists, but even in exile she dreams of rebuilding for a second time

Brutal honesty from Biden Jr.

The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for a “rehabilitation programme”. Their offence: “imitating actors” and “promoting foreign culture”. The young men had formed what they called the “Thomas Shelby Group”, after Cillian Murphy’s character in the popular TV drama…

In this week’s newsletter: human stories of the climate crisis; an investigation into EU-funded migrant abuse; and Afghanistan’s women under the Taliban

The very same immigrants welcomed to the US after risking their lives to fight the Taliban now fear detention or worse