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The United States on Friday issued new rules that would allow most commercial and financial transactions with Afghanistan while maintaining sanctions against the Taliban, in an effort to ease the flow of humanitarian aid and kickstart the paralyzed economy. Non-governmental organizations and financial institutions have expressed concerns about running afoul…

Students have returned to Kabul University, among Afghanistan's oldest and most revered institutions of higher education

As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major Waheeda Bayat will not be among them.

The group expressed concern for civilian casualties and asked for Afghan migrants to be kept safe

Clashes between Afghan and Pakistani security forces have killed two people and wounded several in a border region of the two neighbours, officials said, the latest in a series of such skirmishes.

“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…

For the more than 10 years he's lived in Australia, Afghan refugee Abbas Haidari has been locked in a state of visa limbo that has left him unable to access permanent protection, sponsor his family or even take out a business loan. He and other advocates are calling for change.

Ahmad, a 30-year-old Afghan who worked for the German military, is now in hiding in Kabul in fear of his life.

India's foreign ministry says it has sent off tons of wheat to Afghanistan to help relieve desperate food shortages, after New Delhi struck a deal with neighboring rival Pakistan to allow the shipments across the shared border