Afghanistan

• April 12, 2026

  This American Was Abducted In Kabul In 2022. His Family Is Desperate For News.

  Mahmood Shah Habibi’s daughter hasn’t seen her father since she was 11 months old. That was in 2022, when the American was abducted in Kabul and detained by the Taliban’s intelligence agency, US officials say. “We have had no news of his fate for four years,” his mother told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi.

• March 24, 2026

  US Citizen Dennis Coyle Freed After Over A Year In Taliban Captivity

  Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release and Dennis Coyle, a US citizen held for more than a year, after his mother plead for a pardon on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

• March 18, 2026

  Mass Funeral Held In Kabul For Victims Of Strike On Drug Treatment Hospital

  Afghans attended a mass funeral on March 18 for victims of an air strike that destroyed a drug rehab hospital in Kabul. Volunteers from the Afghan Red Crescent Society assisted with the burial of victims whose bodies were not claimed by relatives.

• March 17, 2026

  Wounded Victims Describe Attack On Drug Rehab Hospital In Kabul

  Doctors in Kabul treated the survivors of an air strike that destroyed a drug rehabilitation hospital late on March 16. Taliban leaders said Pakistan was responsible for the strike, which they said killed hundreds. Pakistan denied the claim, saying it had targeted military installations in Kabul.

• March 17, 2026

  Hundreds Killed At Kabul Hospital Hit By Pakistani Air Strike, Says Afghan Taliban

  The Afghan Taliban says a Pakistani air strike on Kabul late on March 16 hit a medical facility, killing at least 400 people and injuring 250 more. Pakistan rejects the claim and says it targeted a military installation. A local report said at least 30 bodies have been recovered at the scene.

• March 17, 2026

  Afghan Taliban Says Hundreds Killed In Pakistani Air Strike On Kabul Hospital

  At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in a Pakistani air strike on a hospital in Kabul, the Afghan Taliban said, while Pakistan rejected the claims.

• March 15, 2026

  Fears Of Iranian Refugee Influx Grow In Central Asia As War Intensifies

  Two weeks of US-Israeli air strikes have displaced millions inside Iran, raising fears in neighboring countries about a possible refugee spillover that could potentially turn into a humanitarian crisis.

• March 13, 2026

  Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Strikes Undermine China's Diplomatic Push For Peace

  Fresh Pakistani jet and drone strikes targeting Kabul and the Kandahar, Paktika, and Paktia provinces in Afghanistan have cast a shadow over China's shuttle-diplomacy efforts to restore peace between Pakistan and the Taliban.

• March 10, 2026

  US Adds Afghanistan To New Blacklist Over Taliban's 'Wrongful Detention' Of Americans

  The United States has designated Afghanistan a “state sponsor of wrongful detention,” accusing the unrecognized Taliban government of holding American citizens as bargaining chips.

• March 08, 2026

  Then And Now: Life For Afghan Women Since The 2021 Taliban Takeover

  For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban seized power in the country. For others, life under hard-line Islamist rule today looks vastly different from the two decades the country spent under US and NATO intervention.

• February 27, 2026

  Pakistan's Biggest-Ever Attacks On Afghanistan Fuel Fears Of All-Out War

  Pakistan launched a wave of attacks on Afghanistan on February 27, in the most serious escalation between the countries since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

• February 27, 2026

  Pakistan Strikes Afghan Capital Amid Signals Of 'Open War'

  Pakistani war planes bombed Kabul after Afghanistan and Pakistan traded strikes on each other in their volatile mountain border region as days of escalating tensions boiled over into what one senior official from Islamabad called "open war."

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