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A former high-ranking member of Afghan special forces and commando units has issued a plea urging U.S. officials to move remaining members of the force to the United States to avoid a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced that they would begin paying three-months of overdue salaries to government employees from November 20.
After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August, the group's leaders said they would put an end to the cultivation of opium poppies in the country, but they have yet to enact those plans. In the Marja district of Helmand Province, poppy cultivation continues to expand amid an economic crisis.
Germany has sent high-ranking diplomats to Kabul to meet with the Taliban for the first time since they took power in Afghanistan.
The Taliban has renewed calls for Washington to release Afghanistan’s Central Bank assets frozen by the U.S. Federal Reserve, as the war-ravaged nation faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
From crippling droughts to deadly flash floods, Afghans are being hit hard by changes in rainfall and other weather patterns blamed on global climate change.
Seven people were reported wounded in a hand grenade attack near a gathering of local tribal elders in Pakistan's restive northwestern district of South Waziristan.
Since the Taliban takeover in August, Afghanistan's economy has been collapsing while a severe drought has worsened the risk of hunger in much of the country. Afghans like Homaira, a young resident of Ghor Province, are selling off their possessions just to buy food.
The Taliban says a bomb has exploded on a minivan in a Shi'ite neighborhood of Kabul, killing at least one person and wounding several more.
At least two people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a blast inside a mosque in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, officials say.
Fresh destruction at the site of the Bamiyan Buddhas comes despite a Taliban vow to protect all of Afghanistan's historic relics.
Three months after the Taliban seized power in Kabul, high schools remain closed to girls in all but two Afghan provinces. Taliban leaders have said that all female students can study if classes fit strict interpretation Islamic law, but they have yet to issue a clear policy.
A plane carrying U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other Afghan refugees has arrived in the United Arab Emirates after flying out of Tajikistan.
Since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August, many thousands of Afghans have fled their homes and crossed into Iran and Pakistan, sometimes with the help of human traffickers. Migrants say they're desperate for jobs, food, and medical care as the economy collapses in their home country.
United Nations agencies have kicked off a polio vaccination campaign for children across Afghanistan, the first nationwide drive to fight the potentially fatal disease in more than three years.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the killing of four women, including a rights activist, in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
The Taliban wants to turn back the clock on girls' education but failed to study up on modern technology. Hundreds of school-age Afghan girls are circumventing the ban on them attending school by going online, learning everything from computer programming to sculpting.
Afghan women who have been isolated in their homes since the Taliban seized power in August say they feel like they have been sentenced to a life in prison.
Afghanistan's health-care system is on the brink of collapse following the Taliban's seizure of power and the sudden withdrawal of both foreign forces and the international funding that came with them.
Since the Taliban's return to power in August, Afghanistan's economic situation has rapidly worsened. Salaries have gone unpaid and jobs have disappeared. The impact of the crisis is apparent in Farah Province, in the country's southwest, where work and emergency aid are both scarce.
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