The Latest Breaking News from Kabul

Journalist Nelufar Hedayat hears from everyday Afghans whose lives changed forever just one year ago in Kabul Falling. Plus: five of the best podcasts for better mental health

In Afghanistan, Mitra Hussaini was an outspoken champion of women's rights. While her new Australian home has given her temporary safety, she fears for her family left behind.

Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincing

The UNDP’s Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan, Abdullah Dardari, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the political dialogue between the international body and the Taliban was constructive and making progress before the latter issued a decision to ban girls from education. Dardari noted that the Taliban is fighting a vicious and explicit…

Exclusive: Having fled persecution in their home country, Afghan refugees plead with British ministers to show them the same mercy given to Ukrainians

Thousands of at-risk Afghans continue to wait for their humanitarian parole and visa applications to progress.

Drug addiction has long been a problem in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium and heroin

From figuring out how public transport works, to adjusting to a foreign school system and making new friends — arriving in an unfamiliar country as a teenager can bring many challenges. But these young Afghan migrants are leading the way.

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for charitable passersby to purchase bread for them.

Anthony Stephen Malone and a former BBC cameraman were grabbed off the streets of Kabul and were held hostage for until June and they went two month without seeing daylight

Avignon may be France’s oldest arts festival, but it has a resolutely contemporary approach to the dramatic arts, with experimental performances that draw on dance, theatre and poetic traditions. We sit down with multidisciplinary artist Kubra Khademi, whose performance “From Armour to Jackets” kicks off the festival, to hear about…