The Latest Breaking News from Afghanistan

When the Taliban retook the country in 2021, Canada promised its national team visas—tickets to safety. Years later, players are still waiting

The photographer, who lost his legs and an arm in Afghanistan, says the genocide survivor is the ‘most resilient woman I know’. The pair have teamed up, 30 years after the atrocity, to tell her extraordinary story

In Taliban-governed Afghanistan, women are virtually excluded from nearly all aspects of public life

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Afghanistan's Islamic State group is staging a growing number of bloody international attacks, presenting a rare but complicated opportunity for foreign cooperation with the Taliban government to counter the jihadists.

FRANCE 24 spoke to Marzieh Hamidi, a former taekwondo champion for Afghanistan who has been a refugee in France since 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. In late August of this year, she posted a video on social media denouncing "gender apartheid" in her home country. Since early September,…

Afghan journalists have reported hundreds of cases of abuses by government officials, including torture and arbitrary detention, as well as tightening censorship since the Taliban authorities returned to power.

At the border with Iran, streams of Afghan refugees return with children in their arms, their entire worldly possessions contained in a large bag.

Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls.