Hundreds of people are reported dead after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the city of Jalalabad close to the Pakistan border on August 31. Taliban authorities said at least 800 people have been killed and 2,500 injured.
With Pakistan enforcing a deportation deadline that passed on March 31, hundreds of thousands of Afghans who fled the Taliban's takeover in 2021 now face an uncertain future. Other Afghans have lived in Pakistan's Mardan camp for generations, and many have never lived in Afghanistan.
Doctors at a hospital in the Afghan city of Kandahar say they've admitted 5,500 malnourished children in the last six months alone. Nearly 3 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from malnutrition, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Afghans cleared for resettlement in the United States are fearful that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump will put them at grave risk. Some 1,660 Afghan refugees have been pulled from scheduled flights, according to an aid organization.
The Taliban government has imposed a complete ban on organ transplants. Patients and doctors say the prohibition deprives Afghans from accessing potentially lifesaving treatment.
Iran is talking to the Taliban to hand over some 1,000 Afghans convicted on drug charges. The Taliban wants Tehran to deport all Afghan convicts amid a sharp rise in executions in Iran.
Afghanistan is one of the world’s leading victims of climate change. But can its Taliban government cooperate with the international community to mitigate the crisis?
Gul Hotak and her family survive on just one meal per day -- often leftovers from neighbors. They are among the millions of people in Afghanistan, the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, who are going hungry.
Iranian border guards fired on and killed Afghan migrants seeking to cross into Iran from Pakistan, according to local reports and rights groups.
Severe winds in Afghanistan's central Ghor Province have destroyed a tent settlement where hundreds of flood victims were temporarily sheltered. Their original homes were swept away in the summer by torrential rains. The Taliban promised to build new housing, but not even basic aid has materialized.
Afghans are worried that the Taliban’s suspension of the polio vaccination campaign makes their children vulnerable to the potentially life-threatening disease.
UN rights chief Volker Turk launched a four-week session of the Human Rights Council with a call for global leadership to avert a "dystopian future," invoking urgent warnings about the treatment of women in Taliban-led Afghanistan and Ukrainians under near-constant Russian attack.
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