The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

Almost no one in D.C. is eager for war with Russia — but they're eager to justify the bloated military budget

Events at the compound on 12 April, 2009 have emerged as central to the defamation trial brought by Roberts-Smith

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell on Tuesday linked the Biden administration’s highly controversial pullout from Afghanistan six months ago to Russia’s current menacing troop build-up around Ukraine.

About 5,000 Afghans have been on temporary visas for almost a decade. They cannot sponsor family members, or even apply for a bank loan in Australia.

How is the U.S planning to distribute Afghanistan’s central bank funds which it had earlier frozen? Will the Taliban have access?

Jameela and Wajahad both fled the Taliban but, while Jameela can enjoy this Melbourne park with her family, Wajahad can only look on from behind a small locked window.

More than five months after Taliban forces overran Kabul, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke made a long-awaited announcement in January to resettle Afghan refugees. Over the next four years, Australia will offer 10,000 places to Afghans in humanitarian need and another 5,000 visas to Afghans reuniting with family in Australia.

Six months after the Taliban retook Afghanistan, FRANCE 24 spoke to former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who remains in the country. Karzai strongly criticised the Biden administration's recent decision to unfreeze Afghan assets but divide the funds between aid to Afghanistan and victims of the 9/11 attacks, saying the funds…

Six months ago, an ominous sense of déjà vu swept over Afghanistan as the Taliban took control of the country. Unconvinced by the group's pledges to rule differently than in the 1990s, tens of thousands of Afghans fled. While some were evacuated by foreign powers, others had little choice but…

Thousands of Afghans remain stranded, with few signs of action by US President Joe Biden’s administration.

Six months after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the health system is collapsing. Amid the deteriorating humanitarian situation, a raging measles outbreak has already killed more than 150 people and infected tens of thousands more in January alone. Measles is not the only sanitary threat facing young children in the…